Weekly eDiscovery News and Views - August 8, 2012

Compiled from online public domain resources, provided for your review/use is this week's update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

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eDiscovery News
Content and Considerations

• ABA eDiscovery Expert Says Emerging Standards Are Premature - http://bit.ly/OCjAeh (Evan Koblentz)
• Are Keywords Obsolete? http://bit.ly/M3xPeJ (RVM)
• Are Proposed Changes to ABA Ethics Rules Too Little, Too Late? http://bit.ly/MoacPj (Michael Arkfeld, Stephanie Loquvam)
• Be Considerate When You Share Data -  http://bit.ly/QzeYZ7 (Amy Bowser-Rollins)
• Challenges of Conducting eDiscovery on Ephemeral Data - http://bit.ly/OCkHL1 (Brian Esser, Judy Selby)
• Concept over Keywords – Why Search Still Matters for Law Firms - http://bit.ly/Mh4Hkm (Simon Price)
• CVEDR Take II – Monkeys and Magistrates in Monterey - http://bit.ly/M3NM4u (Greg Buckles)
• Dancer's Facebook Messages With Opt-In Class Members are Protected Work Product - http://bit.ly/PseX51 (Jennifer Thibodaux)
• Day Nine of a Predictive Coding Narrative: A Scary Search for False Negatives (And More) - http://bit.ly/PwSdAJ (Ralph Losey)
• Discovery Costs Pile Up in International Trade Commission Patent Disputes - http://bit.ly/PruNga (Matt Miller)
• Duty of Competence in eDiscovery (PDF) http://bit.ly/RvJhSt (Conor Crowley)
• eDiscovery Best Practices: The Number of Pages in Each Gigabyte Can Vary Widely - http://bit.ly/M7ZEhi (Doug Austin)
• eDiscovery Case Law: Counsel, The Inadvertent Disclosure "Buck" Stops With You - http://bit.ly/OBCoKv (Doug Austin)
• Discovery from 3rd Party Vendors - http://bit.ly/Psi2SA (Josh Gilliland)
• eDiscovery Landmark Decision For NC: Attorney-Client Privilege Waived In eDiscovery Production - http://bit.ly/Rea6pV (Brooks Pierce)
• eDiscovery, She Wrote: 1.14 Million Files - http://bit.ly/OGcnwp (Adam Losey)
• Facilitating a Forensic Search - http://bit.ly/Mnk63L (Andrew King)
• False Claims Relators Accuse ex-McDermott Client Of Doublespeak In Effort To Recover Privileged Records - http://bit.ly/MnkMpR (Robert Hilson)
• Federal Judge Sanctions Law Firm and Client re Withheld Docs, Finds TD Bank Knew of Rothstein Fraud - http://bit.ly/OH7AuI (Martha Neil)
• Genger, Unallocated Space, And Opening The Floodgates - http://bit.ly/OLeUVo (IT-Lex)
• How Leveraging eDiscovery Tools Can Reduce the Time and Money Spent on a Lawsuit - http://bit.ly/OJk1n2 (Lael Andara)
• Illinois Bars Employers from Obtaining Current or Prospective Employees' Social Media Account Credentials - http://bit.ly/OGbKTx (Boris Segalis, Nihar Shah)
• Improper Influence over Deposition Errata Sheets - Effecting Substantive Changes to Conform Deposition to Complaint - In Order to Push Meritless Case to Trial Warrants § 1927 Sanctions - http://bit.ly/Mv7gAx (Gregory Joseph)
• Interview with Laura Zubulake of Zubulake’s e-Discovery - http://bit.ly/OEOv9w (Doug Austin)
• Keyword Search and Technology-Assisted Review: Judge Scheindlin’s Recent Opinion - http://bit.ly/MrTWwQ (Shelia Mackay)
• Lawyers See Benefits of Computer Coding, with Caveats - http://bit.ly/MrOE4A (Erin Geiger Smith)
• Leveraging Low-Cost Resources to Develop eDiscovery Knowledge Workers - http://bit.ly/MlRXdA (Mark Yacano, Cat Casey)
• NC Firm Loses Privilege After Leaving Everything To Vendor - http://bit.ly/Mv7YOm (IT-Lex)
• New TAR Order: In re Actos Products Liability Litigation (PDF) http://bit.ly/OIY9YX (W.D. La July 27, 2012)
• Preparing and Managing a Budget for eDiscovery - http://bit.ly/Ps9ET6 (George Carry)
• Selecting And Working With An eDiscovery Vendor - http://bit.ly/OBhJq8 (Mayer Brown)
• Sticking Head The Sand About Deleted Pertinent Emails Can Lead to Costly Sanctions - http://bit.ly/Mv5W0u (Catherine Kiernan)
• Taking Technology-Assisted Review to the Next Level - http://bit.ly/OLe5Mi (Craig Ball)
• Tangible Examples Of Technology-Assisted Review - http://bit.ly/OIO5yW (Barry Murphy)
• Technology Today: Are Meet, Confer Efforts Doing More Harm Than Good? http://bit.ly/OG97Be (Christopher Boehning, Daniel Toal)
• The Data Vampire Diaries: Data Value - http://bit.ly/OHTqcP (Allison Walton)
• The eDiscovery Maturity Model: How Litigants Can Adopt A Proactive Posture To Achieve Information Governance - http://bit.ly/M42hFI (Dean Gonsowski)
• The Global De-Centralized Enterprise: An Un-Met eDiscovery Challenge - http://bit.ly/Mv34Rw (John Patzakis)
• The Time Is Now for Organizations to Take a Holistic Approach to eDiscovery - http://bit.ly/Mnm5Fs (Russ Gould)
• Train, Don’t Cull Using Keywords | Ball in your Court - http://bit.ly/OCPQxC (Craig Ball)
• Twitter to Appeal Order to Produce OWS Tweets - http://bit.ly/PEVBtR (Mor Wetzler)

Apple v. Samsung:  Special Backgrounder Compilation of Selected Stories

• Legal Hold and Preservation at Center of Apple/Samsung Battle - http://bit.ly/OXA172 (Jim McGann)
• Samsung, Apple Spar Over Gadgets' Specs | Reuters - http://reut.rs/OKmFvC (Dan Levine, Edwin Chin)
• Australian Patent Dispute: Apple v. Samsung Trial Blows Out To Mid-2013 - http://zd.net/OI4i7y (Josh Taylor)
• How is Samsung's Native Korea Responding to the IP Battle with Apple?—Nathan McMurray | @LXBN - http://bit.ly/OHXKpt (Colin O'Keefe)
• Apple and Samsung take Australian Legal Battle to the 'Hot Tub' - http://bit.ly/PzKZft (Jane Wardell)
• Samsung: Apple Pushed Expert Witnesses to Change their Minds | Macworld - http://bit.ly/MrSLNS (Jeremy Kirk)
• Apple v. Samsung: Week One Highlights - http://bit.ly/OBUjAG (IT-Lex)
• "Playing the Jury Card: Samsung trying to get an Apple Mistrial?" - http://bit.ly/OD2EHe (Philip Elmer-Dewitt)
• Judge Slams Samsung Lawyers - WSJ.com - http://on.wsj.com/M9RRV0 (Ian Sherr)
• Samsung's Big Zinger in Patent Case: Apple Exec Liked 7-Inch Galaxy - http://bit.ly/QqPEVG (Christina DesMarais)
• Apple's Schiller Testifies in Smartphone Patent Trial - http://nyti.ms/MnZ6dh (Nick Bilton)
• Samsung Says Apple's Claim is an Affront to the Integrity of the Jury | @CIOonline - http://bit.ly/MnZloI (John Ribeiro)
• Apple v. Samsung: Lack of Custodian Follow-Up+Failure to Suspend Auto-Deletion of Email=Adverse Inference - http://bit.ly/MaaYhA (@LegalHoldPro)
• Who's Tweeting live from the Apple v Samsung trial? http://bit.ly/OD6AI4 (@KevinOKeefe)
• Quinn Emanuel Partner Defending Samsung at Odds With Federal Judge - http://bit.ly/PsjynF (Amy Miller)
• Apple-Samsung Judge 'Livid' Over Document Disclosure - http://bit.ly/OwVyE6 (Charles Babcock)
• Apple Asks Court to Sanction Samsung - http://on.wsj.com/OwVqnW (Jessica Vascellaro, Ashby Jones)
• Apple v. Samsung: Having to Go Back to the E-Discovery Basics - http://bit.ly/Mo8AFp (Mike Hamilton)
• Will Samsung's Patent Court Doc Leak Backfire Spectacularly? http://bit.ly/PrTp8s (Brid-Aine Parnell)
• “Sony-Style” Evidence (Mostly) Excluded in Apple vs. Samsung Trial - http://bit.ly/PvEYQR (Jeffrey Gross)
• Apple-Samsung Case Shows How Far U.S. Design Patents Have Come - http://bit.ly/RjToW4 (Lisa Shuchman)
• iWin: Apple Defeats Samsung in Key Pre-Trial Motion - http://bit.ly/OzXID3 (Michael Pontrelli)
• Fighting Over Rectangles: Why Apple Can't Win The Patent War - http://bit.ly/OBA32j (Skylar Greene)
• Apple, Samsung, Dance the Courtroom Jig - Lucy Koh Hears Evidence on the Origin of the Oblong - http://bit.ly/OD3uDR (Tamlin Magee)
• In Apple-Samsung trial, it's John Quinn v. Judge Koh - http://bit.ly/OD3Vy2 (Alison Frankel)
• Back to Basics: What You Thought Everyone Knew About Legal Holds - http://bit.ly/OAgtDH (Dennis Kiker)
• The Method Behind Apple's Patent Madness - http://rww.to/OD35RW (Dan Rowinski)
• Jurors Hear Competing Claims in iPad Copycat Case - http://bit.ly/OD3iV1 (Amy Miller)
• Proposed Spoliation Rules Would Impact Apple-Samsung Trial - http://bit.ly/QQTeoI (Henry Kelston)
• On the Eve of Trial with Apple, Samsung is Dealt Adverse Inference Sanction - http://bit.ly/LZc8MI (Doug Austin)
• Failure to Disable Auto-Delete And Follow Up On Litigation Hold Results in Adverse Inference - http://bit.ly/Oz8lU6 (K&L Gates)
• Adverse Inference Sanction Issued in High Stakes Patent Dispute - http://bit.ly/Q5HVMv (Philp Favro)
• Once Again, Tech Giant Samsung Handed Sanctions for Failure to Preserve - http://bit.ly/OwVPXB (Mikki Tomlinson)
• Samsung Seeks Relief from Spoliation Sanction, Moves to Sanction Apple for Spoliation - http://bit.ly/OBh0p6 (John Horan)
• Samsung Sanctioned in Big-Bucks Patent Case for Not Turning Off Company Email Auto-Delete System - http://bit.ly/LRLS7c (Martha Neil)
• Legal Holds ARE important! “Jury to Hear Samsung Destroyed Evidence” http://bit.ly/QbbWY6 (Project Counsel)
• On Eve of Trial, Apple Obtains Adverse Inference Instruction for Samsung’s Email Spoliation - http://bit.ly/LPLcz8 (John Horan)

Reports and Resources

• ABA Tech Survey: A Third of Lawyers Use Tablets, a Few Still on Dial-Up - http://bit.ly/OqgWs1 (Evan Koblentz)
• Cyber Security Task Force: Public-Private Information Sharing (PDF) http://bit.ly/PEUnyh (National Security Program)
• Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group - SNMP Reflected Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation (PDF) http://bit.ly/NykzKH (BITAG)
• Finally, A Look At the People Who Use Twitter - http://bit.ly/OBGBhB (Brian Solis)
• Law Technology News Digital Issue - August 2012 - http://bit.ly/MlTDnd (LTN)
• Mobile Phone Problems - Pew Research Center (PDF) http://bit.ly/Q9uLdu (Jan Lauren Boyles, Lee Rainie)
• Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update - August 2012 - (PDF) http://bit.ly/OLasGQ (Morrison & Foerster)
• The Genger Case And The Delaware Supreme Court (PDF) - http://bit.ly/QzdPRm (Vicki Louma, Milton Louma, Penny Herickhoff)
• The Rear View Mirror on Google+: 5 Top Stories From Last Week's Unfiltered Orange Newsletter - http://bit.ly/OFZpPi (@OrangeLT)

Sight and Sound

• Case in Point: "To Preserve and Protect" - http://bit.ly/MrSx9A (Tom Fishburne)
• Employee Who "Bumped" Coworker's Computer To Open Their Email Didn't Break Any Laws (Video) - http://bit.ly/OCaqP4 (Michael Schmidt)
• Video: Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: Big Data and the Law - http://bit.ly/Re3R5b (Dechert LLP)

Technology and Tactics

• 5 Most Commonly Overlooked Email Security Steps - http://bit.ly/OOfP5H (Jeff Orloff)
• 10 Tips to Keep Social Media in Line With ABA Ethics - http://bit.ly/OGQr1h (Robert Ambrogi)
• ABA Adopts Ethics Policy on Lawyers' Use of Technology - http://bit.ly/MxbjMT (Sean Doherty)
• Apple Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account - @Forbes - http://onforb.es/PwFrSK (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Canada May (Finally) Live Up to International IP Standards - http://bit.ly/M4MM01 (Alan Cohen)
• Congress Takes Aim at 'Patent Trolls' With SHIELD Act - http://bit.ly/OGe0Kv (Lisa Shuchman)
• Facebook Demand Update - Two Down, Forty-Eight To Go - http://bit.ly/OHYluf (Michael Schmidt)
• "Five Ways Outlook.com Beats Gmail -- and One Way it Doesn't" - http://bit.ly/OJQEDN (Rick Broida)
• "Get a Tweet From Goldman Sachs?!?": Increased Expansion and Scrutiny of Financial Services' Social Media - http://bit.ly/OJcN2i (Gibbons)
• Hotmail Gets an Upgrade with Outlook.com - http://bit.ly/OHY6PJ (Casper Manes)
• Ignorance of Tech is No Excuse - http://bit.ly/MnnGuQ (John Wallbillich)
• Internet Politics - Senate Filibuster Blocks Cybersecurity Bill - http://bit.ly/Prxiio (Peter Vogel)
• Is SharePoint 2013 a Product or a Platform? http://bit.ly/PrtxcY (Tom Byrne)
• Jurors, Judges, and Signing Pledges on Internet Use - http://bit.ly/Ms9PDB (Chioma Ajoku)
• Law Firms Turning to Outside Services Provider to Track News, Internet Chatter that Could Affect Clients - http://wapo.st/OGBBYS (Catherine Ho)
• Lawmakers, Security Experts Lament Stalled Cyberattack Legislation - http://bit.ly/OLJ494 (Catherine Dunn)
• Looking For Mutual Enemies In The Cloud - http://nyti.ms/OBj68r (Quentin Hardy)
• Managing Big Data Behind the Firewall: Part 3 - http://bit.ly/OLd2fz (Tom Jenkins)
• Mobile Devices Vulnerable to Exchange Spoof - http://bit.ly/MnZubP (John Mello)
• More Change Coming: FTC Proposes Further Significant Changes to COPPA Rule - http://bit.ly/PvFNZT (Julie O'Neil, David Brown)
• New Rules Concerning Data Security in the Electronic Communications Sector - http://bit.ly/PoW0A3 (Stephanie Nguyen)
• Oracle Flaw Allows Execution of Hacker Code on Exchange - http://bit.ly/Mmfc7b (John Mello)
• Police to Twitter: Hand Over Data of Threatening User - http://on.mash.to/PDiZaN (Alex Fitzpatrick)
• Protecting Confidential Information and IP Amid Employee Mobility - http://bit.ly/OLJMTL (Patrick Ellisen, Daniel McCloskey)
• Saving the Jury Trial from Extinction - http://bit.ly/OLxnRP (Jason Krause)
• Steve Wozniak: Cloud Computing Lessen People's Control over Content - http://bit.ly/OG9xrc (Lawrence Villamar)
• The Right to Lurk | Slaw - http://bit.ly/OyItaE (Steve Matthews)
• US Executive Branch to Ramp Up Cybersecurity Actions as Federal Legislation Stalls - http://bit.ly/OGbnbA (Harriet Pearson)
• What U.S. General Counsel Need to Know About Offshore Litigation - http://bit.ly/Re4lbx (Jeremy Walton)

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• An ILTA 2012 Update - Orange Legal Technologies - http://bit.ly/OBQj3i (@OrangeLT)
• Analysing Big Data: Q&A with Recommind - Computer Business Review - http://bit.ly/OBtyN0 (Steve Evans)
• Applied Discovery - Choosing the Right eDiscovery Service Provider: Experience, Track Record, and Expertise - http://bit.ly/OzXyeP (Al McNee)
• CA Technologies Bridges Big Data Gap with Federation, Indexing - http://bit.ly/OGaQXd (Vangie Beal)
• Commonwealth Legal becomes a Relativity Consulting Partner - http://bit.ly/OBEOsR (Press Release)
• Concept Searching Products Claim SharePoint 2013 Readiness - http://bit.ly/OI3rDX (Sean Doherty)
• Crossroads Systems Signs $5 Million Deal With IronMountain - http://on.mktw.net/NcHagm (Marketwire)
• D4 Discovery Expands with Acquisition of Phoenix-based On Target Litigation Solutions - http://bit.ly/NcFGCW (Press Release)
• Daegis Appoints eDiscovery Sales Veteran Chuck Pindell as Vice President of Sales and Marketing - http://on.mktw.net/OEHaH3 (Business Wire)
• Daegis Warned of Possible Delisting from Stock Exchange - http://bit.ly/PF1uaf (Mark Anderson)
• DocAuto Releases the New Version of Reporting Server for WorkSite - http://bit.ly/OYP9Bi (Sean Doherty)
• Dr. Stephen V. Rice Joins BeyondRecognition Advisory Board - http://bit.ly/Pry4Ms (Press Release)
• eDJ Group Hires Marilyn Gladden to Guide Media Services for eDiscoveryJournal - http://on.mktw.net/MlUp3G (Marketwire)
• Epiq Systems Opens Hong Kong Document Review Center (Nasdaq:EPIQ) http://bit.ly/MuvXwU (Press Release)
• Former Foley CIO Caddell Joins HBR Consulting - http://bit.ly/Moagij (Evan Koblentz)
• FTI Consulting Study:  “Black Box” Technology Among Counsel’s Top Predictive Coding Concerns - http://bit.ly/OL9URo (Press Release)
• FTI Reports Mix 2Q12 Results - http://bit.ly/OzXlZb (Zacks Equity Research)
• Freehills moves eDiscovery onto Fujitsu’s hosted Services Platform - http://bit.ly/OLb2nt (PR Wire)
• Global Digital Forensics:  "DIY or “Garage” Computer Forensics Can Adversely Impact A Case" http://bit.ly/Mnle7B (PR Web)
• Global Relay Enables Financial Community to Leverage Twitter As 'Compliant' Revenue-Generating Tool -http://bit.ly/NnVe63 (PR Web)
• Intermountain eDiscovery Conference to Provide Latest Information on Digital Discovery - http://bit.ly/N9gdcf (@OrangeLT)
• Intradyn Email Archiving Appliances: In-House and Cloud Email Storage for Small-to-Large Enterprises -http://yhoo.it/OIstTp (PRWeb)
• Iron Mountain Incorporated Announces $950 Million Debt Offering - http://yhoo.it/OIEb0o (Business Wire)
• Jake Flomenberg and Nick Mehta Join Accel Partners as Principal and EIR - http://prn.to/MlQpjN (PR Newswire)
• Jay Leib Interviews Bob Price, Principal Engineer at Content Analyst - http://bit.ly/MmuFnK (kCura)
• LexisNexis Opens New Data Center in United Kingdom - http://yhoo.it/MxmjJZ (BusinessWire)
• Litigation Support Firm Xact Data Discovery Buys Competitor K&B Document Technologies - http://bit.ly/OyEJWz (Jim Hammerand)
• Metalogix Names Software AG Veteran Jignesh Shah as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer -http://bit.ly/OHHOr3 (Press Release)
• Microsoft Joins the Electronic Discovery Institute's Leadership Summit - http://mwne.ws/OKoicD (Marketwire)
• Mimecast Launches Next Generation Email Security - http://bit.ly/OHHuJ4 (Press Release)
• Mitratech Announces Interact 2012 Conference on Legal and Compliance Technology - http://yhoo.it/OJ2hrL (Marketwire)
• Netkiller is Your Gateway to Google Apps Vault - http://bit.ly/OD63pp (PR Log)
• New Symantec CEO Says His Company "Underperforms" in Cloud Computing - http://bit.ly/QoCpon (Doug Bonderud)
• NightOwl Discovery Joins Other Prominent Companies and Firms Requiring CEDS Credential - http://bit.ly/OsBJLn (Press Release)
• OrcaTec Places in Top 5 in Legal Industry Early Case Assessment Study - http://bit.ly/M3LhPR (PR Web)
• PitneyBowes Announces Second Quarter Results for 2012 - http://bit.ly/Pru5zy (Press Release)
• Recommind and Fulbright Panel Debunks Predictive Coding Myths - http://bit.ly/MnZdFN (Chris Dale)
• Reed Smith Picks Enterprise Social Networking Tool to Reduce Email Clutter - http://bit.ly/OYOVdr (Michael Reach)
• Saddletree Research Credits Nexidia for Making Multi-Channel Analytics a Contact Center Reality - http://bit.ly/PzBI6Y (Press Release)
• Responsive Data Solutions Becomes Relativity Best in Service Partner and Certified Reseller - http://bit.ly/OI2fAD (kCura)
• Servient and DW Legal Announce Strategic Partnership - http://on.mktw.net/Re1Gig (Business Wire)
• StoredIQ Collects $10.7M Financing - http://bit.ly/OHVjGi (Christopher Calnan)
• StoredIQ Reinvents Itself in a Big Data Way - http://bit.ly/Prx5fd (Charles Skamser)
• UK eDiscovery Recruitment Specialist Releases “Bridging the eDiscovery Skills Gap" - http://bit.ly/MnmCqL (@LegalIT)
• Wave Software Updates File Viewer for LexisNexis Concordance - http://bit.ly/MmxBRn (Evan Koblentz)
• World Software Corporation Announces Legal Hold Feature in Worldox GX3 - http://bit.ly/OJcyV4 (Press Release)

2012 eDiscovery Events

AUGUST

ILTA Annual Conference 2012
August 26 - 30, 2012
Washington, DC

SEPTEMBER

Intermountain eDiscovery Conference 2012
September 13, 2012
Salt Lake City, UT

ACC Annual Meeting
September 30 - October 3, 2012
Orlando, FL

OCTOBER

EDI Leadership Summit 2012
October 17 - 19, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL

NOVEMBER
LawTech Europe Congress
November 12, 2012
Prague, Czech Republic