Weekly eDiscovery News and Views - January 27, 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. 2009 e-Discovery Technology Trends - http://bit.ly/5zbNEU
   
2. Authenticating Web Pages as Evidence - http://kuex.us/67a1
   
3. Case Summary: Bensel; Tests for Spoliation and Imposition of Sanctions - http://kuex.us/6a2d
   
4. Canadian Resources - New Applied Discovery Online Law Library Section focused on Canadian E-Discovery Requirements - http://kuex.us/68aa
   
5. Catching up with the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure - http://kuex.us/694a
   
6. Classy Text Messages from a Collection Agency - http://bit.ly/8JrVUU
   
7. Interview with Virginia Henschel of Applied Discovery: Global Electronic Discovery Provider - http://bit.ly/8ZZ70f
   
8. Court broadly allows a prevailing party to recover its ediscovery costs: http://is.gd/71BMq
   
9. Court Orders Disclosure of German ESI Overruling German Law Objectionshttp://bit.ly/5YXFPd
   
10. Document Review: People or Machines? http://kuex.us/6ace
    
11. Economist Magazine: Expect Profound Structural Shift in Legal Market - http://kuex.us/68d2
    
12. E-Discovery Budgetary Considerations for the Litigation Support Manager: The Importance of Early Communication - http://kuex.us/67e5
    
13. Human-Based Data Transport Risk Factor in eDiscovery and its Probabilistic Impact of Interjecting Error - http://kuex.us/26d8
    
14. InsideCounsel talks to NBC Universal GC Rick Cotton: http://bit.ly/5yNBnO
    
15. Social Networking: A Workplace Policy - http://kuex.us/6883
    
16. Ssshhh ... E-mails Show Lawyers' Push to Keep AIG Details Hush-Hush - http://kuex.us/6adf
17. Successful E-Discovery Starts with a Strong Foundation - http://bit.ly/7sMGQP
    
18. Tantrum' E-Mail Gets Ball Rolling on Thawing Stanford Assets - http://kuex.us/6bcf
19. The Changing Landscape of Discovery in Ontario - http://kuex.us/67b1
    
20. The Form of Production Battle of the Bulge: Scanned PDF’s Not a Reasonably Useable Form - http://bit.ly/6xGKS2
    
21. The Top 250 UK Law Firms and Their IT Systems - http://bit.ly/5MF0hE
    
22. Twitter Libel Liability Gets Early Test - http://kuex.us/6bd2
23. Understanding PDF Standards: An Interview With Adobe’s Rick Borstein by Joe Howie - http://kuex.us/67e8
24. US claims Global Power to Access Data despite EU Data Protection Laws - http://kuex.us/6a61
25. Zubulake Revisited – The Pension Committee of U. of Montreal Pension Plan, et al. v. Banc of America - http://bit.ly/akGj98

Content for Understanding Technology

• 6 Ways Document Management and Records Management Differ - http://kuex.us/6a54
  
• An Overview of the IBM Google Academic Cloud Computing Initiative with Details on Each Research Project http://bit.ly/44IwMB
  
• Changing and Maintaining Client Behavior - A Social Media View - http://kuex.us/6a22
  
• Gartner Blog Network: Social Everything: The CIOs Chance to Ditch CRM - http://kuex.us/6878
  
• Grid Computing and the Future of Cloud Computing -http://kuex.us/680e
  
• Information Extraction of Legal Case Features with Lists and Rules - http://kuex.us/6a17
  
• Microsoft pushes new Cloud Computing Advancement Act: http://tinyurl.com/yjax24q
  
• Private Clouds And The Fixed Vs. Variable Discussion -http://kuex.us/68a2
  
• Put the ROI of Deduplication and Replication into a Broader Business Context - http://kuex.us/68a4
  
• Review Performance Service to Give Real-Time Actionable Insight into Review Progress and Reviewer Performance - http://kuex.us/6bd5
  
• Storage Services Approach will Streamline Infrastructure Delivery http://bit.ly/5dPgTa
• U.S. Military Turns to Social Networking to Encourage Sharing Official and Sensitive Info - http://kuex.us/6949
• What is a PST? http://kuex.us/6a1f

Vendor Views

Industry Landscape

• Applied Discovery Initiatives @ #LTNY -http://kuex.us/6ad4
  
• Archiving, Deduplication and Virtualization Take Center Stage in Backup Exec 2010 and NetBackup 7 Releases -http://kuex.us/6a1c
  
• BIA and Catalyst Release Per-Document Review & Hosting, a Cost-Effective Package - http://kuex.us/6ad7
  
• Bridgeway Software to Showcase Legal Enterprise Management Solutions at LegalTech New York -http://kuex.us/6ad6
  
• Clearwell Bolsters E-Discovery Platform With Expanded Support for Guidance EnCase Forensic Files -http://kuex.us/6a1b
  
• EDRM - This Is How We Spend Our Investment |http://bit.ly/5HxXnj
• EMC Reports Strong Data Storage, Deduplication Sales -http://kuex.us/6afc
• Epiq Systems Expanded Electronic Discovery Segment Finishes 2009 on a Strong Note - http://kuex.us/6bda
  
• EU Approves $7.4 Billion Deal Between Oracle And Sun -http://kuex.us/67ab
  
• Falcon Discovery Unveils InsideOutTM, an "Insourced" e-Discovery Services Practice http://kuex.us/6bd6
  
• Guidance Software to Announce 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results - http://kuex.us/6a1e
  
• H5 Introduces H5 EDGE™ Classifier for Enterprise Information Governance - http://kuex.us/6be8
• Iron Mountain Connected Backup Solution Adds Support for Windows 7; Includes New Functionality for
  
• Kiersted / Systems to Unveil New Approaches to Electronic Discovery - http://kuex.us/6754
  
• Litigation Discovery http://kuex.us/68a5
  
• Legal Sites Plan Revamps as Rivals Undercut Price -http://kuex.us/6aff
• LegalTech New York: FTI Technology Helps Corporations and Law Firms Address Top E-Discovery Challenges -http://kuex.us/6ad8
  
• No Per GB Charges with MerlinOne SaaS E-Discovery Solution - http://kuex.us/68a6
  
• Orange Legal Technologies Announces Quarter over Quarter Revenue Growth of 12.5% during the Fourth Quarter of 2009 -http://kuex.us/6a4f
  
• Stratify Bolsters eDiscovery Production Capabilities - http://kuex.us/6be9
• Wave Software to Launch “Next Generation” Native Review Bridge as kCura Independent Software Vendor -http://kuex.us/6a1a

Case Summaries

Case Law and EDD via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

Document Retention and Destruction Focus

• Ferron v. Echostar Satellite, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66637 (S.D. Ohio July 29, 2009).http://kuex.us/6a2f
• Scalera v. Electrograph Systems, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 91572 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 29, 2009). http://kuex.us/6a2e
• Joseph Oat Holdings, Inc. v. RCM Digesters, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95909 -http://kuex.us/68ac
• Mirbeau of Geneva Lake LLC v. City of Lake Geneva, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101104 -http://kuex.us/68ab
• Statera, Inc. v. Henrickson, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68891 (D. Colo. July 17, 2009). http://kuex.us/6acc
• Innis Arden Golf Club v. Pitney Bowes,, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54135 (D. Conn. 6/26/09). http://kuex.us/6acd