Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – June 30, 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. 2010 Law Technology News Legal Technology Vendor Satisfaction Survey - http://tinyurl.com/27mveze
2. "A McChrystal?" Viral Social Media and the McChrystal Termination - http://tinyurl.com/2cfy6pf
3. Another Step Towards Information Governance - http://tinyurl.com/2ddrwc9
4. Are E-Discovery Sanctions Tough Enough? http://tinyurl.com/2etxxcj
5. Automated Review in Electronic Discovery Re-Visited - http://tinyurl.com/2fb8ccg
6. Desktop Collection 2.0 –Enterprise Forensics Part 2 - http://tinyurl.com/284rcad
7. Divorce Lawyers: Facebook Tops in Online Evidence - http://tinyurl.com/25x6w8n
8. EC gives UK Two Months to Up Data Protection Laws - http://tinyurl.com/2dsrw42
9. eDiscovery and Rule 30(b)(6): You Only Get What You Ask For (So Know Your Borders) - http://tinyurl.com/2a2upy6
10. Examining The Need For Standardized Collection Workflows - http://tinyurl.com/2eu3w9q
11. Handling Privileged Information - Canadian Lawyer Magazine - Video Panel Discussion - http://tinyurl.com/36dg2x4
12. I Hate That We’re Still Talking About Pages - http://goo.gl/fb/EosL5
13. Jury Instruction Allowing Inference that Destroyed Evidence Was Unfavorable and Payment of Attorneys' Fees... http://tinyurl.com/24pyqjv
14. Legal, IT Should Both Treat E-Discovery as 'Mission-Critical' - http://tinyurl.com/2a4eaqa
15. Legal Project Management Moves In-House - http://tinyurl.com/2cm2pdw
16. Making Sense of Compliance and Governance - http://tinyurl.com/2ezte5q
17. Minimizing the Legal Risks of Using Online Social Networks - http://tinyurl.com/2bguwls
18. Primer on the Use of Sampling in E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/drFmOT
19. Sarbanes-Oxley Survives High Court Ruling on Accounting Board - http://tinyurl.com/2g8rohe
20. Self-Collection Prohibited in Delaware - http://tinyurl.com/2cnhjfs
21. Social Gaming Suits Are Serious Business - http://tinyurl.com/25ktlgf
22. Social Media Governance: An Interview with Applied Discovery and Sensei Enterprises - http://bit.ly/c5ogZV
23. The Growth of Legal Outsourcing: Passage to India - http://tinyurl.com/2c3obbl
24. Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers' Personal Info - http://tinyurl.com/2eva73h
25. U.S. Government's FCPA Probe of Weatherford Expands - http://tinyurl.com/2bzqwpq

Content for Understanding Technology

• Another Take At Integrated Vs. Best-of-Breed - http://tinyurl.com/2f6plfo
• Companies Need a Social Media Policy: Experts - http://tinyurl.com/2g5qm23
• DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group - http://tinyurl.com/2a834fa
• E-Mail That Self Destructs - http://tinyurl.com/26qoto5
• HP Ends the Protocol Wars - http://tinyurl.com/2bq9gmu
• Infiniband, a Dead Man Walking? http://tinyurl.com/24hfwlh
• Infographic Numbers Demonstrate Need for Instant Message Archiving - http://hub.am/b5uZrB
• New Anti-Spam Regs to Have Complex Rules, Stiffer Penalties North of the Border - http://tinyurl.com/248uwo8
• The Rise of the Company Analyst - http://tinyurl.com/25os755
• Who Owns Social Media? http://tinyurl.com/253dq3o

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Applied Discovery + EMC + Kazeon offer Combined Services for Collection, ECA and Review - http://wp.me/p2KJ5-Vp
• A Cloud is a Cloud is a Cloud: HDPS Powered by CommVault Steps up to Deliver a Singular Storage Cloud - http://tinyurl.com/35x6dwh
• Actuate Announces General Availability of Xenos Axess - http://tinyurl.com/2363ant
• ASG Introduces New Records Management Solution to Simplify Complexity of Electronic Infoin High-Volume Environs - http://tinyurl.com/36atcgx
• Commonwealth Legal Joins Nexidia’s Partner Program to Provide Audio Discovery Services in Canada - http://tinyurl.com/2cohe69
• Data Storage Corporation Acquires SafeData - http://tinyurl.com/25z79r8
• Grant Thornton LLP Selects Lateral Data's Viewpoint(TM) as Core e-Discovery Platform in U.S. - http://tinyurl.com/25vczlj
• Integreon Named a “Cool Vendor” in Business Process Services - http://tinyurl.com/2by2ujb
• Iris Data Services Hires New Director of Legal Services - http://tinyurl.com/287jaak
• Iron Mountain Completes the Assimilation of the Stratify Brand - http://tinyurl.com/2accj4h
• Four Reasons Why Symantec Cluster File Systems Continues to Get the Nod over NAS with NFS v4 - http://tinyurl.com/23wvwpf
• Guidance Software Joins Russell Indices - http://tinyurl.com/26zz4sx
• kCura Releases Relativity 6.4 Relativity - http://bit.ly/bbtmq2
• Kroll Ontrack Expands Support for Apple Customers with New Ontrack Data Recovery Technology - http://tinyurl.com/26qxb6y
• Nuxeo - Why a Case Management Framework? http://bit.ly/9tPPgX
• Oce Business Services: Digitizing Records is an Untapped Opportunity for Many Organizations - http://tinyurl.com/2buztqo
• Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company Nuxeo Adds $3.3 Million To Series A Funding - http://tinyurl.com/2bhbdbj
• SFL Data Selected by Oracle as Exclusive Provider of Electronic Discovery Services - http://tinyurl.com/26d83ok
• Symantec Information Management Solutions Help Customers Reduce Data Storage - http://tinyurl.com/29uhlo5
• Unify (UNFY) Announces $38M Merger with Daegis - http://tinyurl.com/33uel9s
• Winston & Strawn Litigation Partner Joins American Discovery as CEO - http://tinyurl.com/28efwjq

eDiscovery Events

July Event Update

• IQPC Corporate Litigation Exchange July 18-20, 2010 Colorado Click here for more information.
• Black Hat USA 2010 July 23-29, 2010 Las Vegas, NV Click here for more information.

August Event Update

• CBA Canadian Legal Conference & Expo August 15-17, 2010 Niagara, Ontario Click here for more information.
• ILTA 2010 August 22-26, 2010 Las Vegas, NV Click here for more information.