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.
eDiscovery Updates
Considerations
- Appeals Court Upholds Decision Not to Recuse Judge Peck in Da Silva Moore – eDiscovery Case Law - http://bit.ly/17d58S3 (Doug Austin)
- Connecting the Digital Dots to Catch the ‘Craigslist Killer’ – ABA Journal - http://bit.ly/10QklaO (Mark Hansen)
- Court Imposes Adverse Inference for Failure to Preserve Facebook – Electronic Discovery Law –http://bit.ly/12VCy7j (K&L Gates)
- Da Silva Moore: Second Circuit Denies Petition for Writ of Mandamus Compelling Recusal of Judge Peck - http://bit.ly/ZmaTJM (K&L Gates)
- Emails Form Valid, Statute Of Frauds-Friendly, Real-Estate Option Contract - http://bit.ly/155GCpM(@ITLexOrg)
- “E-Merging”: Mergers and Acquisitions in Today’s Era of Big Data – http://bit.ly/16XQcZT (Michele Lange)
- Evolving Judicial Attitudes Towards Predictive Coding Suggest It May Be Time To Retire The Defensibility Question - http://bit.ly/11ZzYyd (Akiva Cohen)
- FRCP 37 – A Balancing Act, Part II - http://bit.ly/16NMHoS (Erik Post, Jim Vint)
- Federal Court in Manhattan “Likes” Service of Process via Facebook - http://bit.ly/Zi7KKS (Madeleine Hensler)
- Google Takes On FBI’s Warrantless Info Requests - http://bit.ly/Zbfxx0 (Ron Miller)
- IRS May Be Sifting Through Email in Defiance of Court Order - http://bit.ly/17uVcq1 (Erika Morphy)
- IRS Thinks It Doesn’t Need A Warrant To Read Your Email - http://huff.to/16UPFWK (Matt Sledge)
- Industry Q&A: How are E-Discovery Tools Making Sense of Big Data? http://bit.ly/17vJawA (Noelle Knell)
- Is PredictiveCoding the Answer to Reducing the Costs of eDisclosure? The Lawyer - http://bit.ly/ZjaYO9 (James Kent)
- Judge Peck’s Refuse to Recuse in ‘Da Silva Moore’ Remains After Appeal - http://bit.ly/12Y33cn (Monica Bay)
- Law Firm Falls Victim to Phishing Scam, Sued by Bank http://bit.ly/122whYB (@SharonNelsonEsq)
- Lawyers Wary of Use of Social Media for Disclosure - http://bit.ly/16QmNPo (Joshua Sisco)
- Note to Counsel: Exhaust “Alternative Measures” to Restrict E-Discovery Parameters –http://bit.ly/Zk01vO (Mike Hamilton)
- Of Course Search Engines Can’t Be Required To Hide Unflattering Legal Documents - http://bit.ly/ZuJHIG (@ITLexOrg)
- Pan-Pacific Data Privacy Laws And Regulations: Impact On US E-Discovery And Investigations - http://bit.ly/10ZZZvZ (Mukesh Advani)
- Q&A with Information Governance “Guru” Barclay Blair - http://bit.ly/ZmwmFx (Shelley Podolny)
- New Developments in Cloud Computing and the Practice of Law | Xerox E-Discovery Talk - http://bit.ly/ZsZI1I (Paul Matthews)
- Online Sales Tax Upheld In NY, Could Happen In Other States - http://bit.ly/158R4Nj (@ITLexOrg)
- SDNY Rules that First-Sale Doctrine Does Not Apply to the Resale of “Used” Digital Media - http://bit.ly/1713cw7 (James Kang)
- Second Circuit Vindicates Judge Peck and Judge Carter in Da Silva Moore - http://bit.ly/16PxL9Q(@ITLexOrg)
- Special Report: G.W. Bush’s 103.6 Million Missing Email Messages and the IT Archiving Challenge - http://zd.net/YXSk1Z (@DavidGewirtz)
- Spoliation – The Sanction Should Have Some Correlation to the Degree of Fault - http://bit.ly/11PSeKa (Gregory Joseph)
- Social Media Use as Evidence of Juror Misconduct - http://bit.ly/11YKw0o (Richard Raysman, Peter Brown)
- Spoliated Evidence Keeps Plaguing TD Bank as New Fraud Victims of its Customer Await Turn in Court - http://bit.ly/17uXEwM (Robert Hilson)
- The Diamonds in the Mud - http://bit.ly/17ibuj2 (Kris Howarth)
- The Duty To Preserve Social Media Information - http://bit.ly/17qFexe (Michael Schmidt)
- Project Management: The Human Hand That Guides E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/17ibakv (Andy Mower)
- What is Litigation Support? Database Administrator - http://bit.ly/ZuDiNH (Amy Bowser-Rollins)
- When Deactivating Your Facebook Account Becomes Intentional Destruction of eEvidence - http://bit.ly/155EJcw (Catherine Kiernan)
- Yet Another Request for Facebook Data Denied – eDiscovery Case Law - http://bit.ly/157Ulwm (Doug Austin)
Levity
Risk
- A Primer on Policing Your Trademark – Copyright & Trademark Matters - http://bit.ly/ZjbuvB (Ben Wagner)
- Article 29 Working Party Gives New Guidance on the Principle of Purpose Limitation –http://bit.ly/17qBhbG (Martin Flueger)
- Australia: Anonymisation on Information Commissioner’s Radar - http://bit.ly/157TADx(@DataGuidance)
- Broker-Dealer Registration Requirements for Funds; Requirements for Funding Portals - http://bit.ly/ZnHp14 (Anne Pinedo)
- California’s Right to Know Act: Are New Privacy Disclosure Requirements on Horizon? http://bit.ly/17eK0uV (Alexis Payne)
- Consultants: Nasdaq Cloud Satisfies Trading Records Compliance - http://bit.ly/Z9GzFe (Tom Steinert-Threlkeld)
- IBM Executives to Lobby Hard for CISPA | GamePolitics - http://bit.ly/ZuCS9X (@GamePolitics)
- Directors’ Exercise of the Corporate Privilege - http://bit.ly/Z9Ib1I (Joseph McLaughlin)
- Dismissal to Bar Refiling in State Court of Frivolous Claim Filed in Fed Court Lacking Jurisdiction - http://bit.ly/1239yM0 (Gregory Joseph)
- Don’t Keep That Data Breach Secret - http://bit.ly/1712zCH (Tam Harbert)
- How to Use Social Media for Regulation FD Compliance - http://hvrd.me/ZnOM8G (Richard Sandler)
- Litigation: How the Internet Affects Personal Jurisdiction - http://bit.ly/ZnOIpC (Steven Blonder)
- M&A Representations and Warranties Insurance:What Every Buyer and Seller Needs to Know - http://bit.ly/15gkgly (Kevin LaCroix)
- Online Activities Generally Not Covered By Your E&O Policy - http://bit.ly/16NHYmX (Dan Pennington)
- Part 24 – Discovery Ramifications of Insurer’s Attorney’s De Facto Claim Adjustment - http://bit.ly/158RnYn (Jeffrey Greyber)
- SEC Highlights Compliance and Ethics for Broker-Dealers | Cady Bar the Door -http://bit.ly/ZbPNki (David Smyth)
- Social Media: Growth, Risk, and Tactics - http://bit.ly/12gX7ME (@ComplexD)
- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Disloyal Employees: A Narrow Bridge To Nowhere? http://bit.ly/170lMpP (Gary Glaser, Jacob Oslick)
- Who Owns Your Social Media Account When Your Employee Leaves? http://bit.ly/16XPBY1 (Leslie Paul Machado)
- Why Working From Home Still Works for Legal - http://bit.ly/119YYPi (Thomas Carroll)
Resources
- An Update: Peck, Parties and Predictive Coding - http://bit.ly/ZjLIYi (@ComplexD)
- April Update: eDiscovery and Technology-Assisted Review: A Backgrounder - http://bit.ly/Y4wiJW(@OrangeLT)
- eDiscovery On Alltop - http://bit.ly/10QpDTC (Alltop)
- Model Code of Conduct Subscribers - EDRM - http://bit.ly/154lwrT (The Electronic Discovery Reference Model)
- Updated eDisclosure Systems – Buyer’s Guide – 2013 Edition (V1.2) Now Available - http://bit.ly/154pdh7 (Legal IT Insider)
Senses
- Cartoon: The Importance of Search? http://bit.ly/ZgVpXe (@OrangeLT)
- Audio: Episode 6: A Higher Bar for Global Compliance - http://bit.ly/10U1600 (@MichaelBramnick)
- Video: Borg Challenge: Part Five Where I Summarize My Findings - http://bit.ly/YZKfcZ (@RalphLosey)
- Video: How Good Is Your Predictive Coding Poker Face? (Part Two) - http://bit.ly/1710qXz (Matthew Nelson)
- Video: Tom Baldwin on Insourcing Litigation Support - http://bit.ly/153w2j1 (Monica Bay)
Technologies
- 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Buying and Using Smartphones - http://bit.ly/15hV26h (Alan Cohen)
- BigData Drives Big Demand For Storage - http://bit.ly/12iRI7Z (BizTech2)
- Cloud Interest Pushes 451 Group Up to Fourth-Largest Analyst Firm - http://bit.ly/17sRSMi(@DuncanChapple)
- DNS Bug Disclosure: ICANN Releases New Guidelines – http://bit.ly/16Z5jjU (Evan Daniels)
- Android Operating System Now Target of EU Antitrust Charges - http://bit.ly/ZfKpt9 (Peter Vogel)
- EU Accepts Google Antitrust Proposal - http://ubm.io/12j11on (Thomas Claburn)
- Google Introduces a Tool for Planning for Your Digital Afterlife - http://nyti.ms/16Z4rMa (Clair Cain Miller)
- GC Goes Public With ‘Patent Troll’ Strategy - http://bit.ly/17ifxfx (Brian Glaser)
- Meg Whitman: Autonomy Is An ‘Almost Magical Technology’ – Business Insider - http://read.bi/16UM4rE (Julie Bort)
- Microsoft Takes Aim at Amazon With a New Cloud Service - http://nyti.ms/119YQPN (Nick Wingfield)
- Military Intelligence Tries To Tame Data ‘Monster’ - http://ubm.io/11YKYMh (Jeff Bertolucci)
- Prescriptive Analytics And Big Data: Next Big Thing? http://ubm.io/ZuJ020 (Jeff Bertolucci)
- Speak Up, the Internet Can’t Hear You - http://nyti.ms/16Z4IyF (David Streitfeld)
- Still Don’t Want to Take Email Security Seriously? http://bit.ly/115jJOG (Jeff Orloff)
- The Honeynet Project: Watch Cyberattacks in Real Time - http://bit.ly/10WqkLe (@SharonNelsonEsq)
2013 Events
APRIL
2013 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition
April 14-17, 2013
Washington, DC
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MAY
Information Governance & eDiscovery Strategy Exchange
May 5-7, 2013
San Diego, CA
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Inside Counsel – 13th Annual Super Conference
May 6 – 8, 2013
Chicago, IL
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MER ’13 – The National Conference on Managing Electronic Records
May 20 – 22, 2013
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JUNE
The Fifteenth Annual International Techno Security Conference
June 2-5, 2013
Myrtle Beach, SC
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7th Annual Governance and eDiscovery Summit
June 12-13, 2013
Sydney, Australia
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
June 10 – 14, 2013
Rome, Italy
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AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
- Fifth Annual Intermountain eDiscovery Conference – 2013
September 26, 2013
Salt Lake City, UT
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OCTOBER
LawTech Europe Congress 2013
October 21 – 22, 2013
Prague, Czech Republic
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NOVEMBER
The Advanced eDiscovery Institute
November 21-22, 2013
Washington, DC
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