Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – March 24, 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. Affordable, Quality e-Discovery Is Not Attainable Without Teamwork and Cooperation http://bit.ly/cBXRkC
   
2. Calls for New Model of Law Firm-Client Relations at Georgetown Conference - http://tinyurl.com/yb8cqgy
   
3. Confusion Carries the Day in E-Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/ybxpt9x
   
4. Court's Google Search Did Not Violate Evidence Rules, 2nd Circuit Says - http://tinyurl.com/y9gcsds
   
5. Doctors Told Not To Use Social Networks, Could Create Ethical Problems - http://tinyurl.com/ybfdkp8
   
6. Drowning in ESI? Grab A Buoy. By Herb Roitblat, Ph.D., http://bit.ly/9SwOes
   
7. Dueling Opinions: Scheindlin’s Pension Committee vs. Rosenthal’s Rimkus - http://tinyurl.com/ydsdqo2
   
8. Get Your Head in the Cloud - Despite Ethics Questions, Law Firms are Storing Client Data on the Net - http://tinyurl.com/y9gsal6
   
9. ESI Culling: Trouble With Image Files - http://tinyurl.com/yc3y96b
   
10. ESI Non-Preservation Agreement - Form http://tinyurl.com/yg99ahd
    
11. Green Electronic Discovery Matters (The Trees) - http://tinyurl.com/yclq9fn
    
12. How to Keep Sensitive Data Blacked Out - http://bit.ly/9niXkj
    
13. In South Africa: Review of the Law of Evidence - South African Law Reform Commission - http://tinyurl.com/yfmslvl
    
14. Judge Scheindlin's Latest Primer on E-Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/ycmulc9
    
15. “Law Firm Evolution-Brave New World or Business as Usual?” http://bit.ly/bTmTK0
    
16. Networking Site Spur Another Look at Bogus E-Mails - http://tinyurl.com/yh3gg4z
    
17. No, No, You Can't Do That: Lawyers Surreptitiously Friending on Facebook - http://bit.ly /axR324
    
18. 'Perpetual' Software Licence Doesn't Last Forever, Rules Court - http://tinyurl.com/yg96kh6
    
19. Records Management: Is Europe Taking The Lead - http://tinyurl.com/ygmqfxr
    
20. Review Performance Module Changes E-Discovery Review Management Landscape - http://tinyurl.com/yklb3or
    
21. Social Media and Long Term Care Facilities: Considerations for Employers and Employees - http://tinyurl.com/yh9vkja
    
22. 'Sexting,' Texting and EDD Before High Court - http://tinyurl.com/yjtcemq
    
23. Small and Medium Businesses look to Cloud Storage Services For Data Compliance and E-Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/y8r4y3v
    
24. Stolen Vanderbilt Desktop has Data of Over 7,000 students -  http://tinyurl.com/ye2wt85
    
25. The CPA's Role in Quantifying Post-Acquisition Dispute Damages (Journal of Accountancy) - http://bit.ly/aJei35
    
26. The Electronic Turn in Criminal Subpoenas - http://tinyurl.com/ya9v3to
    
27. Undisputed Fiction Or Viacom's Smoking Gun? Early Emails Between YouTube's Founders - http://tcrn.ch/cAYZuD
    
28. What is Information Governance? By Barry Murphy - http://tinyurl.com/ycluhm4
    
29. Why The Rest of the World Thinks We’re Crazy - http://tinyurl.com/ydkq69w
    
30. XML Tags Provide Relief for eDiscovery - http://tinyurl.com/ygyt43l

Content for Understanding Technology 

• Deliver High Speed CDP with SATA Disk: Here's How It Is Done - http://tinyurl.com/ylzszlx
  
• Distributing In-House Apps Now a Snap for Apple iPhones - http://tinyurl.com/ycx7ecd
  
• Facial Recognition Technology Raises Net Privacy Questions - http://tinyurl.com/yezowtl
  
• FTC's Pamela Jones Harbour Takes Google to Task on Privacy - http://tinyurl.com/yhshuwe
  
• Ghostblogging Will be the Death of Social Media in the Law - http://tinyurl.com/yh5wzhh
  
• Google Releases Free Web Security Scanner - http://tinyurl.com/ybx8v8g
  
• ISO Issues New Guidelines for Safeguarding Electronic Medical Data - http://bit.ly/auwAgt
  
• Lighthouse Projects And Accelerating Change - http://tinyurl.com/yetc4sj
  
• Microsoft Has Its Head in the Clouds - http://tinyurl.com/yh48hxs
  
• Policy Shapes Outcomes - http://tinyurl.com/yc65qjm
  
• The Race Between Technology And Journalism - http://goo.gl/4gH5

Vendor Views Industry Landscape

• Applied Discovery Review Performance Module Changes E-Discovery Review Management Landscape - http://tinyurl.com/yklb3or
  
• BlueArc Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant of Industry Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant for Midrange/High-End NAS - http://tinyurl.com/yfav6vt
  
• Cherwell Software  Cited as ITSM "Emerging Leader" by Independent Research Firm - http://tinyurl.com/ybgmjbb
  
• CT Summation Announces General Availability of CaseVault Precision - http://tinyurl.com/ygqpxrc
  
• Digitiliti Unveils DigiLIBE, a Complete Data Management Solution - http://tinyurl.com/ya74u34
  
• Green Legal Matters (The Conference) - http://tinyurl.com/ykexco4
  
• MessageSolution Releases Enterprise Migration System for GroupWise - http://tinyurl.com/ybjtodq
  
• New E-Discovery Survey by Clearwell Reveals Significant Trend Toward Taking E-Discovery In-House - http://tinyurl.com/ybgooql
  
• New Metadata Cleaning Server from Workshare Eliminates Risk Across the Organization - http://tinyurl.com/yd86w9m
  
• LPO Company Named in Unauthorized Practice of Law Writ in India - http://tinyurl.com/ybzn4u4
  
• Open Text Targets User Productivity With New Mobile Strategy - http://tinyurl.com/ybb55dd
  
• Symantec Dumping Veritas File System Development Team - http://tinyurl.com/yb3g7lg
  
• Xiotech Accelerates End-to-End Virtualization With Integration and Virtualization Performance Pack - http://tinyurl.com/y9nkmxw
  
• ZyLAB - From eDiscovery to Information Governance with EDRM and IMRM - http://tinyurl.com/y8zrluz

Case Summaries Electronic Discovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Gillett v. Michigan Farm Bureau, 2009 Mich. App. LEXIS 2666 (Mich. Ct. App. Dec. 22, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/ydrs59o
• Jain v. Memphis  Shelby Co. Airport Authority, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16842 (W.D. Tenn. Feb. 25, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/yccu55a
• Johnson v. US Bank National Association, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120111 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 3, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/y8n7grp
• Lawson v. Sun Microsystems, Inc., “Lawson II”, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15131 (S.D. Ind. Feb. 26, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/yadzfqo
• Lawson v. Sun Microsystems, Inc., "Lawson IV", 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10860 (S.D. Ind. Feb. 8, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/yhw26e3