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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Making Forensics Elementary at Your Firm

April 27, 2007 – 2:17 pm

The electronic-discovery phenomenon is here to stay — and the industry is still exploding. The percentage of electronically-stored-information evidence in the standard case has increased exponentially, and all signs on the information superhighway and on roads leading to court indicate that ESI in litigation will escalate as time goes by. Along with e-discovery, the field [...]

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Computer Forensics & Data Preservation

April 27, 2007 – 12:56 pm

Court-appointed trustees and receivers, or fiduciaries, identify, recover and evaluate assets and historical financial information. They are aided by a team of professionals, including attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, appraisers, investment bankers and others, depending on the nature of the matter. In the past, this meant sifting through reams of paper records and issuing subpoenas for [...]

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Separating E-Discovery Myths from Realities

April 26, 2007 – 6:28 pm

  By Conrad J. Jacoby, Esq. As the legal community continues to puzzle through the impact that digital information is having on the practice of law, many practitioners are guided by long-standing misconceptions and misunderstandings about electronic discovery. Whatever seed of truth exists in these platitudes, taking them at face value can lead to poor [...]

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Rising Costs of E-Discovery Requirements Impacting Litigants

April 25, 2007 – 2:08 pm

The first electronic database I supervised in litigation ended up costing a dollar a page. And that was before a single lawyer had looked at any of it. Making TIFF images, using Optical Character Recognition software to create searchable text, entering basic descriptive coding for each document and exporting all this data into a usable [...]

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E-Discovery: The Times, They Are A Changing

April 21, 2007 – 3:39 pm

Fasten your seatbelts legal mavens – in less than six months electronic discovery as we know it will undergo some important changes. These changes are being driven by amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that become effective on December 1, 2006. While one of the intentions behind these changes is to reduce [...]

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