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…
In an age when virtually all documents are created on computers, it has become second nature to electronically share these materials through e-mail, extranets, and USB flash drives. Unfortunately, many people don’t fully understand exactly what information is contained in…
While many attorneys and their clients focus on the importance of preserving electronic files and data to minimize the risk of evidence spoliation, far fewer give the same attention to the seemingly straight-forward process of validating these materials for admission…
Digital information is an increasingly common part of civil and criminal litigation. Electronic mail messages and documents-or evidence that such materials are suspiciously missing-are powerfully persuasive pieces of evidence that can make or break a case. Courts recognize the importance…
Michael Osborne has been getting a lot of vendor calls lately pitching a new breed of products, typically called electronic data discovery (EDD) tools. These tools pro
The past 10 years have proved that the escalating costs of data collection and…
