Weekly eDiscovery News and View – April 28, 2010

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

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery

1. A “Visual Way” to Follow eDiscovery - http://tinyurl.com/27aueyw
   
2. Discarded Buffalo Police Copiers Contain Sensitive Data - http://bit.ly/chT2UY
   
3. FBI Struggles to Pull Criminal Data from Digital Devices - http://bit.ly/9L1Gip
   
4. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Announce the Release of Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines -  http://bit.ly/bULJZR
   
5. Firm finds 5,400 deleted Email Messages of New Orleans’ Mayor Ray Nagin - http://tinyurl.com/29bhstw
   
6. Flexibility, Directness is Key In E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/d0l3iD
   
7. Forbes/MIT: Why We Share Information - http://bit.ly/a8yhuC
   
8. Hard Drives on Personal Computers May Contain More Than You Want Others to Know - http://tinyurl.com/2cg7xz9
   
9. How Structural Features of the U.S. Judicial System  Have Affected the Take-Up of Digital Technology by Courts - http://tinyurl.com/358e98h
   
10. IPOs Are on Upswing but Not Related Legal Fees - http://tinyurl.com/2bqd5fo
    
11. Judge Linked to ‘Lawmiss’ Web Comments Removed from Case - http://tinyurl.com/2dfkud3
    
12. Legal Informatics - A Personal Appraisal of Context and Progress - By Richard Susskind - http://tinyurl.com/26xsjav
    
13. Let There Be Lite: A Brief History of Legal Information Retrieval - http://tinyurl.com/3ymeqwu
    
14. Making Sense of FINRA’s Social Media Guidelines - http://tinyurl.com/26uk56r
    
15. New Law Could Change the Way You Build Database Applications - http://tinyurl.com/298j6aa
    
16. Pinguelo Appears on Fox’s The Strategy Room to Discuss Workplace Internet Abuse - http://tinyurl.com/24ra6ey
    
17. Pressure Points for Achieving eDiscovery Cost Effectiveness - http://tinyurl.com/269dyt4
    
18. Raiders of the Lost Hard Drive - http://tinyurl.com/25a6l9b
    
19. Requesting Data: More is Better - http://tinyurl.com/2f3g7e7
    
20. SCOTUS Dips into Technology with Quon - http://tinyurl.com/2aop5ge
    
21. Senators See Privacy Problem in Facebook Expansion - http://usat.me?38338420
    
22. Sex and the SEC - http://tinyurl.com/28dhbmn
    
23. Structured Data is Neither as Easy nor as Difficult as it Sounds - http://tinyurl.com/38fztsr
    
24. Texas Appeals Court Finds Lower Court's Order to Turn Over Hard Drive Improper - http://bit.ly/aOJm5e
    
25. The 451 Group on eDiscovery and eDisclosure - http://tinyurl.com/2fdu88k
    
26. The European Union  Releases a Research Paper on the Future Opportunities for European Cloud Computing - http://bit.ly/cKv4KC
    
27. The FTC, Blogging, and Your Business - http://tinyurl.com/2ctv7a5
    
28. The Last Words on E-Discovery? http://tinyurl.com/2fxoye8
    
29. Voicemail: The Next eDiscovery Challenge - http://tinyurl.com/23cbv7u
    
30. Was Goldman Sachs GC's Talk With Investors a Mistake? http://bit.ly/a68qLL 

Content for Understanding Technology

• 10 Emerging Technologies 2010 from MIT/Technology Review - http://tinyurl.com/y28hcym
  
• Apple Buys a Chip Maker Behind the iPad Brain - http://nyti.ms/9EYsEm
  
• Backup Isn't Dead, It's Just Evolving - http://tinyurl.com/29xaw56
  
• Cherry-Picking Open Source Licenses - http://tinyurl.com/2dpcpro
  
• Cloud Programming - A New Language Will Improve Online Applications -  http://tinyurl.com/264w5xf
  
• Corporate E-mail in the Cloud: Google vs. Microsoft  - http://tinyurl.com/2atnts7
  
• Ex-SAP CEO Leo Apotheker talks about 'the next big thing' in IT - http://bit.ly/bdo81T
  
• FBI Names Cyber Division Chief - http://tinyurl.com/2aevcvs
  
• Federal CIOs Urge Changes To Entice IT Workers - http://tinyurl.com/28et7qa
  
• Forecast: Expect More Clouds - http://tinyurl.com/2esplrb
  
• Google Buzz & EU - http://bit.ly/a7ki2A
  
• New Hack Pinpoints Cell Phone User's Location, Personal And Business Relationships - http://su.pr/5mVvHk
  
• Patriot Act May Hamper Cloud Computing Adoption - http://tinyurl.com/yafblrl
  
• Riskless Storage Efficiency: What It Is and Why IT Managers Need to Deliver on It - http://tinyurl.com/27ucu78
  
• The State of Modular Storage is Changing - http://tinyurl.com/27tqee4
  
• We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint - http://nyti.ms/c8GATa
  
• Why CIOs Are Choosing Cloud E-Mail - http://tinyurl.com/347wb25

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Alterian Extends Social Media Monitoring Capabilities to Arabic Market - http://bit.ly/9eDxwe
  
• Applied Discovery - End User Views of E-Discovery and E-Disclosure - http://tinyurl.com/269jyde
  
• Autonomy Creative Accounting? http://tinyurl.com/22wdp2k
  
• DOAR Litigation Consulting Acquires Inference Data - http://tinyurl.com/23w5ql7
  
• Electronic Data Extraction Network (EDEN) Celebrates One Year Anniversary - http://tinyurl.com/2e48x3y
  
• Epiq Systems Announces Q1-2010 Results - http://bit.ly/bmdn59
  
• Legal Document Lifecycle Management with Litera Live - http://twurl.nl/iivdlk
  
• New Integrated Analytics on the Catalyst CR Platform - http://tinyurl.com/263d323
  
• StoredIQ Announces Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 http://bit.ly/cBD6zw

Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co., 529 F.3d 892 (9th Cir. 2008); City of Ontario v. Quon (08-1332) http://tinyurl.com/3ayxlgd
  
• Virgin Records America, Inc. v. Doe, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21701 (E.D.N.C. Mar. 16, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/2b7wem8
  
• Plew v. Limited Brands, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39715 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 23, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/259fjlp
  
• Sec. Exchange Comm. v. Schroeder, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39378 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 27, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/2c5w9jh
  
• Linde v. Arab Bank, PLC, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43439 (E.D.N.Y. May 22, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/24nvfab

eDiscovery Events
May Event Update 

Text Mining 2010
May 1, 2010
Columbus, Ohio
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Inter-Pacific Bar Association 20th Annual Conference
May 2-5, 2010
Singapore
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2010 ALA Annual Conference
May 3, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts
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The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference
May 7-8, 2010
Washington, D.C.
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EMC World 2010
May 10-14, 2010
Boston, MA
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Argyle Executive Forum: 2010 Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum
May 11, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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EDRM Kickoff Meeting Update
May 11-13, 2010
St. Paul, MN
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INTERACT 2010
May 16-19, 2010
Miami, FL
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MER Conference 2010 - Managing Electronic Records
May 16-17, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
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IQPC Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit
May 17-19, 2010
London, UK
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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit
May 17-18, 2010
London, UK
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ALM - Virtual LegalTech
May 20, 2010
Online
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DRI: Drug & Medical Device
May 20-21, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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ITechLaw: 2010 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 20-21, 2010
Boston, MA
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ACC 2010 Corporate Counsel University (CCU)
May 23-25, 2010
Indianapolis, IN
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DODIIS Worldwide Conference
May 23-27, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
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PLI: International Litigation 2010
May 24, 2010
New York, NY
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CEIC 2010
May 24-27, 2010
Summerlin, Nevada
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InsideCounsel SuperConference
May 25-26, 2010
Chicago, IL
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IBA Technology Law Conference
May 25-26, 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark
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IQPC: 7th Annual Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil & Gas
May 26-27, 2010
Houston, TX
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USSTRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium
May 26-27, 2010
Omaha, NE
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SpeechTEK
May 26-27, 2010
London, UK
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ACC Europe Annual Conference
May 30 - June 1, 2010
Vienna, Austria
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