Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – May 5, 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. Meet And Confer: Key Considerations To Prepare Effectively - http://tinyurl.com/24s7w7g
2. 2nd Circuit Affirms Refusal To Quash Subpoena In Music Downloading Case - http://bit.ly/bk7ky4
3. 7th Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program Committee Issues Phase 1 Report - http://tinyurl.com/28p97tx
4. An Important Voice For E-Discovery Reform - http://tinyurl.com/264ndjt
5. Are Custodial Preservation and Collection Efforts a Bad Idea? http://bit.ly/bItaDJ
6. Are We Paying Five Times Too Much for E-discovery? http://bit.ly/cVHMz1
7. Court Grants Expedited Discovery Against Yahoo to Discover Identity of John Doe Defendants - http://bit.ly/9I7Hgu
8. Delaware Superior Court Adopts eDiscovery Rules - http://tinyurl.com/28zxe6w
9. Draft Alberta Rules of Court Now Available - http://tinyurl.com/2eefqzn
10. DU Law Review: Mandating Reasonableness in a Reasonable Inquiry - http://bit.ly/cib5gL
11. E-Discovery at Issue in Case Involving Anna Nicole Smith's Mom - http://tinyurl.com/3ypfprg
12. E-Discovery:  What Single Failure Constitutes Malpractice? http://tinyurl.com/26qk8ek
13. eDiscovery Buyers Must Be Diligent In A Hot Market - http://tinyurl.com/2g2b3c2
14. eDiscovery: The Transparency Police? http://tinyurl.com/28om8ez
15. Employer Monitoring Of Employee Social Networking Going To The Next Level - http://tinyurl.com/38chwgo
16. Federal Judge Bars 'Sexting' Prosecution of Pa. Girls - http://tinyurl.com/2c5opxc 
17. German Data Protection: Use of Web Analytics Tools Illegal? http://bit.ly/dnuuiT
18. Gone, Not Forgotten - Exiting Employees Leave a Trail of Electronic Data - http://tinyurl.com/26jmpz4
19. Internet Law: U.S. Court Decides Emails Equal a Signature for Contracts - http://shar.es/mcBrL
20. Is All ESI Accessible in California? http://tinyurl.com/2ehm6gj
21. New Metadata Ethics Opinion – MN - http://ht.ly/1GYqG
22. Ontario Court Sets Standard For Disclosing Anonymous Posters - http://bit.ly/9Ihmg0 
23. Ponemon Study Finds Average Cost of Data Breach Was $3.4 million in 2009 - http://bit.ly/cX4sfM
24. Project Management ACTION in #eDiscovery - Analyze, Capture, Track, Investigate, Optimize, Note - http://tinyurl.com/278oqzr
25. Proportionality and Sedona Canada Principles Cited in Decision Requiring Production of E-mail - http://tinyurl.com/29fh3uk
26. Search Technology: An Intelligent Adjunct to the Lawyer’s Skills, not a Black Box - http://tinyurl.com/23lch8y
27. Study Projects Nearly 45-Fold Annual Data Growth by 2020 - http://tinyurl.com/lsocj6
28. The United Airlines/Continental merger: a short or long document review? http://bit.ly/dl6xbV
29. WI Supreme Court approves Discovery Rules to Address Electronically Stored Information - http://bit.ly/9L5dss
30. When U.S. Discovery And Foreign Blocking Statutes Conflict: Third Parties, Take Note - http://tinyurl.com/2eorkw9

Content for Understanding Technology

• 52-percent of Adults Share Sensitive Data on Social Networks - http://bit.ly/bzDFwA
• Amazon Kindle 2.5 Adds Social Networking - http://tinyurl.com/29n4vsv
• CIO’s Guide to Establishing Social Media Policy - http://tinyurl.com/2a2uj89
• Does Privacy Matter? http://bit.ly/cmOejm
• Microsoft  Previews Spindex, a Social Media Tracking Tool - http://bit.ly/b1HdzI 
• New Technology Generates Database on Spill Damage - http://nyti.ms/chbyMG
• NIST High Tech Transfer Report - http://tinyurl.com/23y7ye4
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade and Migration Vendor Selection - http://tinyurl.com/2uku4yp
• The Fate of the Semantic Web - http://tinyurl.com/2dpwqfv
• Tweeting for Trouble - http://tinyurl.com/276qj22
• Understanding Data Deduplication - Data Deduplication - InformationWeek: http://bit.ly/bivLEe
• Why Social Sharing Is Bigger Than Facebook And Twitter - http://shar.es/mGwU2
  

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Complete Discovery Source Partners With Lineal to Provide International eDiscovery Services - http://tinyurl.com/25qeuq9
• Clearwell Offers Comprehensive Process Aligned #eDiscovery Solution - http://tinyurl.com/25kqwsf
• Daticon EED Announces Availability of Discovery Express - http://tinyurl.com/25wakyq
• EDD Search Tools: My Conversation with Cataphora - http://tinyurl.com/2c2alu3
• Esquire Solutions Announces a New View on Video and Transcript Management - http://tinyurl.com/35h5wnr
• First American Corp. Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - http://tinyurl.com/39ruc3c
• Former Weil Gotshal & Manges Senior Litigator Joins De Novo Legal as Managing Director-Project Management - http://tinyurl.com/27yb2lk
• Forward Discovery Releases Raptor 2.0 and Announces Raptor USB - http://tinyurl.com/2d3ryyh
• GUIDANCE SOFTWARE, INC. Reports Operating Results (10-Q) - http://tinyurl.com/26rc4k9
• InBoxer Announces Anti-Bullying Monitoring Software For Schools and Education - http://tinyurl.com/2bbtvp3
• Iron Mountain Beats Analyst Expectations; IRM year-on-year growth, gains of $47m Q110 vs $41m in Q109 - http://ht.ly/1FKxf
• kCura releases e-Discovery review platform Relativity Six - http://litn.eu/kcu01
• LECG Corporation Reports First Quarter 2010 Results - http://tinyurl.com/2augcnj
• Open Text reports Q3 profit of US$13.1 million, revenue up from year ago - http://tinyurl.com/2aculnu
• OrcaTec's Truevert Named One of the Top 7 Semantic Search Engines. http://bit.ly/avlk5t
• Precise, Inc. Appoints Industry Heavyweights in Response to Growing Demand for eDisocovery - http://bit.ly/aYeXIF
• Recommind Research: UK Firms Still Not Ready for e-Disclosure - http://tinyurl.com/38uth2n
• Vicky Pryce to Join FTI Consulting as Senior Managing Director - http://tinyurl.com/23bouaw
  

Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Mamola v. Group Manufacturing Services, Inc., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35433 (D. Ariz. Apr. 9, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/2a46d58
• E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Kolon Ind., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36530 (E.D. Va. Apr. 13, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/25c4klg
• Arista Records LLC v. Doe, "Doe lll", 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99791 (D. Conn. Dec. 9, 2008). http://tinyurl.com/25fj4b8
• In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 9 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 6, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/243tvbg
• Mintel International Group v. Neergheen, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7436 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 3, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/2aszjg3
• Arista Records LLC v. Doe, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12159 (N.D.N.Y Feb. 18, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/2dxvoxq
• Motown Record Co., L.P. v. Kovalcik, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14217 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 23, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/24fbolj
• Independent Newspapers, Inc. v. Brodie, 2009 Md. LEXIS 18 (Md. Feb. 27, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/29hxrfq

eDiscovery Events
May Event Update 

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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