Weekly eDiscovery News and Views - January 20, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news and views highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News

Context for Applying Discovery

1. 3rd Circuit Panel Mulls if Teen 'Sexting' Is Child Pornography - http://kuex.us/655d
   
2. 7th Circuit E-Discovery Pilot Program: Overview and Best Practices - http://kuex.us/58c7
   
3. Campbell Law School to Host Annual Law Review Symposium on Electronic Discovery - http://kuex.us/62af
   
4. Can Employees Claim Privilege On Work Email Accounts? http://kuex.us/6575
   
5. Cisco Systems Settles Defamation Suit Over Blog Posting - http://kuex.us/6618
   
6. Clawbacks Back in the News - http://kuex.us/665b
7. Court Examines Taxation of EDD Costs to Losing Plaintiff in Patent Case - http://kuex.us/66e6
8. Court Finds Claims of Burden and Expense "Exaggerated," Declines to Find Emails "Not Reasonably Accessible" - http://kuex.us/6190
   
9. Craig Ball and the EDna Challenge - http://kuex.us/633b
   
10. Databases A Top Target For E-Discovery - http://kuex.us/6242
    
11. Department of Justice Announces National Coordinator for Criminal Discovery Initiatives - http://kuex.us/63ad
    
12. Document Categorization in Legal Electronic Discovery: Computer Classification vs. Manual Review - http://kuex.us/63b7
    
13. Does the Fourth Amendment cover 'the cloud'? http://kuex.us/655e
    
14. Enforcing Injunctions Against 3rd Parties in Online Defamation - http://kuex.us/62b7
    
15. Environmental Prosecutor to Oversee DOJ Discovery Training - http://kuex.us/6616
    
16. Ethics and EDiscovery Review - http://kuex.us/6443
    
17. Failure to Issue a Written Litigation Hold Constitutes Gross Negligence - http://bit.ly/5Jtzvu
    
18. Gibson Dunn Launches E-Discovery Practice Group - http://kuex.us/66e2
19. How Secure Is Your PDF? http://kuex.us/644c
20. IFRS 9 — A Perspective on Financial Instrument Accounting - http://bit.ly/8hOFER
21. Judge Heaps E-Discovery Costs on Plaintiff - http://kuex.us/6232
    
22. Judge Scheinldin Issues a Correction to Her "Pension Committee" Opinion - http://bit.ly/7HJC2U
23. Litigation and E-Discovery Strategy - Meet and Confer Best Practices Podcast Series (also available on iTunes) - http://kuex.us/666e
24. New Means of Communication: Employee Text Messaging Presents Unique Employment Issues - http://kuex.us/6267
    
25. New Cornell Customized Google Legal Research Tool -http://kuex.us/6567
26. No FRE 502 Protection When Disclosure and Requested Return Were 1-Year Apart - http://kuex.us/6245
    
27. RENTOKIL or RentToUse - http://kuex.us/65d4
28. Some eDiscovery Mistakes are more Forgivable than Others - http://kuex.us/66e7
29. The Changing E-Discovery Landscape in Ontario -http://kuex.us/657b
30. The Pitfalls of European Data Collection -http://kuex.us/6230

Content for Understanding Technology

• Amazon To Introduce New 70% Royalty Option For Kinde Digital Text Platform - http://tcrn.ch/8BB35X
• Better Tools ... Or Better Models? http://kuex.us/6350
  
• Computer Forensics Expert David Aberman Joins Document Technologies, Inc. - http://kuex.us/62ae
  
• Daily Text Messages Exceed 4 Billion- http://bit.ly/4tsjza
• Embedding Intelligence Into Your XBRL Tagging Methodology - http://kuex.us/62b8
  
• Hash Values and 4th Amendment Particularity - http://kuex.us/665c
  
• iPhone: Improving Legal Services - http://kuex.us/64c4
• Microsoft Bows to EU Pressure, Tweaks Search Data-Retention Policy - http://kuex.us/6646
• Report: 44% Of Google News Visitors Scan Headlines, Don't Click Through http://tcrn.ch/7iRQhd
• Social Networks: Who Cares? http://kuex.us/6654
• The ABCs of Cloud-Based Practice Tools -http://kuex.us/63b8
  
• The VP of Cloud Computing Engineering at Sun Discusses the Sun Cloud as an Ideal Service for Hadoop Users - http://bit.ly/PoFvT
• Why VMWare bought Zimbra: It's the seats - http://kuex.us/6419

Vendor Views

Industry Landscape

• Applied Discovery Appointment Provides Clients Toronto-based Canadian Law Expertise -http://kuex.us/661b
• Alliance One International Standardizes on Mimosa NearPoint for Unified Content Archiving and Data Protection - http://kuex.us/6645
  
• Constellation Energy Uses Clearwell for Company-Wide E-Discovery - http://kuex.us/65d3
  
• “Data! Data! Data!” — an interview with Tim Williams of Index Engines - http://kuex.us/6644
  
• DMS RoI Calculator Available Now - http://kuex.us/66ed
• E-Discovery Services Expert GGO Launches Digital WarRoom Software, Ending Per Gigabyte Fees - http://kuex.us/66e4
• EDRM Luncheon at LegalTech New York 2009 -http://kuex.us/661f
  
• Equivio Cuts Data Retention Clutter - http://kuex.us/6559
  
• FTI Technology's Ringtail(R) Legal(TM) Software Wins Law Technology News Award - http://kuex.us/6244
  
• FTI Technology Receives Highest Possible Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's E-Discovery SOFTWARE Report -http://kuex.us/6623
  
• Guidance Software Announces First Fully Integrated eDiscovery Solution - http://kuex.us/663f
• Kroll - Seventy-four Percent of Organizations Experienced a Data Loss Incident at their Workplace in the last Two Years - http://kuex.us/6640
  
• Lateral Data Debuts Simplified E-Discovery Price Model -http://kuex.us/623f
  
• Merrill Corporation Introduces New ‘Drag-&-Drop’ Feature for Merrill DataSite - http://kuex.us/6620
  
• MessageSolution Releases Enterprise Migration System -http://kuex.us/655f
  
• Open Text Capture Center 4: Improved Document Recognition, Data Capture - http://kuex.us/6351
  
• Patrick Young Joins Wave Software’s Management Team as Vice President of Sales - http://kuex.us/66e5
• When It Comes to E-Discovery Sanctions, Be Afraid. Be Very, Very Afraid - http://kuex.us/66e0
• Workshare Announces Appointment of Anton Papp as Vice President, Business Development - http://bit.ly/5YmNiK

Case Summaries

Case Law and EDD via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Case Summary: Hansen v. Coleman School District, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4088 (E.D. Wis. Jan. 9, 2009). Discovery Scope - http://kuex.us/66eb
• Case Summary: Lapin v. Goldman, Sachs & Co., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9140 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 20, 2009). Discovery Scope - http://kuex.us/66e8
• Case Summary: Grand River Ent. Six Nations, Ltd.v. King, 09U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12940 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 9, 09) Discovery Scope - http://kuex.us/6514
• Case Summary: New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc. v. Jackson, 2009 N.H. LEXIS 29 (N.H. Mar. 18, 2009). Discovery Scope - http://kuex.us/6512
• Case Summary: Wuopio v. Brandon Board of Edu., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30215 (E.D. Mich. Apr. 9, 2009). Discovery Scope - http://kuex.us/63ac
• Case Summary: Henderson v. US Bank, N.A., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40968 (E.D. Wis. Apr. 29, 2009). Discovery Scope - http://kuex.us/63ab
• Applied Discovery's Case Summary Alert - 2009 Year In Review - http://kuex.us/61c2