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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Rising Costs of E-Discovery Requirements Impacting Litigants

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…

Controlling the Accidental Release of Digital Information

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…

Defining A Standard for Admitting Electronic Evidence at Trial

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…

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

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…

electronic discovery-in-2010

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…