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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Rising Costs of E-Discovery Requirements Impacting Litigants

July 30, 2007 – 3:32 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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Controlling the Accidental Release of Digital Information

July 9, 2007 – 5:19 pm

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 the files they are distributing. In the legal community, where clients routinely entrust sensitive and [...]

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Defining A Standard for Admitting Electronic Evidence at Trial

July 9, 2007 – 5:17 pm

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 into evidence. One inadvertent result is that while standards for resolving electronic evidence spoliation allegations [...]

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Finding the Line Between E-Discovery Expert and Fact Witness Testimony

July 9, 2007 – 5:15 pm

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 of electronic files and their analysis, and they routinely admit such materials into evidence. However, [...]

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An introduction to Computer Forensics

July 7, 2007 – 4:29 pm

Computer Forensics is the process of investigating electronic devices or computer media for the purpose of discovering and analyzing available, deleted, or “hidden” information that may serve as useful evidence in supporting both claims and defenses of a legal matter as well as it can helpful when data have been accidentally deleted or lost due [...]

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