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.
Weekly eDiscovery Top Story Digest Update
eDiscovery Issues
- Acrobat to the Rescue: Searching Unsearchable Productions - http://bit.ly/1dPBOo6 (Craig Ball)
- Awarding eDiscovery Costs to Prevailing Party: Billing Descriptions Dictate What is Recoverable - http://bit.ly/1boLkBS (David Bohrer)
- Conor Crowley Updates Latest eDiscovery Trends - http://bit.ly/12Mn3fF (Victor Li)
- Courts Struggle With Determining Reasonability of eDiscovery Vendor Bills - http://bit.ly/1dPAHou (Ralph Losey)
- Destroyed Tape Recording Leads To Sanctions – http://bit.ly/18AN5LU (@ITLexOrg)
- Did the Court Just Look at Facebook On Its Own? http://bit.ly/15HI7qy (Josh Gilliland)
- Diving into E-Data: Second Circuit Guidance Regarding Searches of Computers (PDF) http://bit.ly/163YLRA (Grayson Yeargin, Emily Harlan)
- eDiscovery Best Practices: Bridging the Gap - http://bit.ly/19eaUsj (Eric Robinson)
- GPS Location Data Requires a Warrant - http://bit.ly/15PSuZF (Peter Vogel)
- Gross Negligence + Lack Of Litigation Hold = Spoliation Sanctions - http://bit.ly/192J5mQ (@ITLexOrg)
- Information Discovery: Further Adventures in Predictive Coding – http://bit.ly/18BODpd (Herbert Roitblat)
- Law Departments Have Growing Choices – Should Law Firms Worry? http://bit.ly/19eexP1 (Ron Friedmann)
- Leveling the Playing Field - http://bit.ly/18AQ72J (Peter Coons, Cynthia Courtney)
- No Sanctions for Routine Deletion of Text Messages “So As Not To Unduly Encumber” Cell Phones - http://bit.ly/12Mrbfu (K&L Gates)
- Predicting Discovery? 120-Second Provider Predictive Coding Survey – Update -http://bit.ly/137sfLc ( @ComplexD )
- Printed Copies of Documents Not Enough, Spoliation Sanctions Upheld for Discarding Computer –http://bit.ly/12Ym0xS (Doug Austin)
- Proposed Law Aims to Give More Privacy to Email - http://bit.ly/13pq0qJ (Victor Li)
- Social Media Discovery: You Gotta Be Down With OPP (Other People’s Profiles) – http://bit.ly/19gf4QA(@ITLexOrg)
- Smoking Gun in ‘Fabulous Fab’ Case Spotlights Perils of Loose Email Banter -http://bit.ly/13mMpVE (Robert Hilson)
- Suit Claims Skadden Owes Doc Reviewer Overtime Pay - http://bit.ly/15TEa2d (Sara Randazzo)
- The DESI V Workshop on Predictive Coding, Machine Learning, and eDiscovery Review (With Video) –http://bit.ly/131N6US (Greg Bufithis)
- ‘TheDirty.com’ Goes to Trial | Socially Aware Blog – http://bit.ly/1bKN7Bs (Cecilia Ziniti)
- Tick Tock: The Pendulum Swings Back to a World of Proportional Discovery – http://bit.ly/163Zgel(Jason Schaefer, Betsy Cook Lanzen)
- Update: Predictive Coding One-Question Provider Survey – From Active Learning To Support Vector Machine – http://bit.ly/166eWhl (@ComplexD)
- What’s Next for the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments? | Legal Talk Network -http://bit.ly/137HFPJ (Michelle Lange, Thomas Allman)
- Wish There Were Better Standards for Production of Native Files? Enough is ENF! http://bit.ly/135yjE3 (Doug Austin)
Corporate Risk
- $1.7 Million Fine for HIPAA Violation - http://bit.ly/1bIMDvr (Peter Vogel)
- 5 Rules for Better Compliance Questionnaires – http://bit.ly/1brlnlc (Ryan McConnell, Shane Kimzey)
- 10 Big-Money IP Verdicts in Trade Secret Litigation - http://bit.ly/15PIIXj (Lisa Schuchman)
- Comparing Firm Billing Rates by Practice, City, Size - http://bit.ly/133xPhI (Catherine Dunn)
- Developing Issues in IP Law - http://bit.ly/15BvBJ6 (Yar Chaikovsky, Michael Barclay)
- Don’t Let Social Media Sabotage your Divorce or Family Law Case – http://bit.ly/136sfuS (David Wildstein)
- Drink and Drive. Get Fired. Collect Unemployment Benefits? Yep, Says Court – http://bit.ly/18AO2DY(Daniel Schwartz)
- Ethics: Is Copying Software Ever OK — and Who Gets to Decide? – http://bit.ly/1bFvbYQ (Marcy Maslov)
- EU VP Reding Uses PRISM as Lever to Push Enactment of Regulation and Questions EU-US Safe Harbor - http://bit.ly/18tpZa5 (Christopher Wolf)
- FCPA: Maslow’s Hierarchy Challenged - http://bit.ly/1324ioJ (Dr. Henry Wong Meng Yeong)
- E-Signatures and Assents - http://bit.ly/18tqd12 (John Gregory)
- FCC Clarifies Carrier Obligations to Protect Information Collected and Stored on Mobile Phones - http://bit.ly/18tqrFl (Phillip Berenbroick, Mark Brennan)
- FERC Flexes Regulatory Muscles, Lawyers Get Busy - http://bit.ly/1dKipVt (Ross Todd)
- Fifth Circuit Cuts Employers Out of Whistleblower Loop - http://bit.ly/18soh8P (Jenna Greene)
- Fracking Company Agrees to $20 Million Cleanup - http://bit.ly/18yn2Fa (Jenna Greene)
- FTC vs. Wyndham Could Make CIOs Fiscally Accountable - http://bit.ly/1dPJC9k (Tam Harbert)
- Goldilocks, Porridge and General Solicitation - http://hvrd.me/1dJH7pb (David Lynn)
- Is Genesis Really a New Beginning for Rule 68 Offers of Judgment in FLSA Matters?http://bit.ly/1dR4FbK (Janell Ahnert)
- Model Order Would Cut Patent Fights Down to Size - http://bit.ly/1323akR (Sheri Qualters)
- Risk Management Systems: The New Frontier - http://bit.ly/1326KeO (Michael Volkov)
- SEC Eyes Data Mining to Boost Fraud Detection - http://bit.ly/192RYg8 (David Katz)
- Tech Companies Urge Congress to Pass Federal Data Breach Notification Law -http://bit.ly/161P7Rv (Victor Li)
- The Deterrence Effect of SEC Enforcement Intensity on Illegal Insider Trading - http://hvrd.me/1dJHwb4 (Diane Del Guercio, Elizabeth Odders-White, Mark Ready)
- The FCPA Resource Guide in Chinese - http://bit.ly/15POPuV (Eric Carlson)
- Uniform Trade Secrets Act: NDA Requirement for Identification of Confidential Information in Writing - http://bit.ly/12PZFhp (Bryan Faller)
Technology Considerations
- 8 Tips Toward a Successful Cloud Migration - http://bit.ly/1dSDWeN (Mitch Wagner)
- 2013 Future of Cloud Computing – 3rd Annual Survey Results - http://slidesha.re/1bG7O1g (Michael Skok)
- Accelerating Big Data Analytics with Flash Caching - http://bit.ly/19fQS0M (Kimberly Leyenaar)
- Archiving Social Media is Not Spy Work - http://bit.ly/1bH5o2s (Jason Krause)
- Cloud Computing & The Internet of Things go Hand in Hand - http://bit.ly/1bnW9E8 (Mike Wheatley)
- Considering Social Media? ILTA13 and Advice (PDF) http://bit.ly/131PPgY (@InsideLegal)
- Google’s Impact on Journalism - http://bit.ly/12ZJJxO (Patrick Maines)
- How to Craft a BYOD Governance Program - http://bit.ly/19fRjYX (David Weldon)
- LinkedIn Has Growing Value for Lawyers - http://bit.ly/15ZHNG4 (Nicole Black)
- Mainframe Computers That Change With the Times - http://nyti.ms/1bJAZAu (Quentin Hardy)
- SIM Card Vulnerability Puts One Quarter of all Phones At Risk - http://bit.ly/13xmkTX (Mike Wheatley)
- Tactics for Responding to Cyber Attacks – Squeezing Your Cyber Response-Curve: Part 1 -http://bit.ly/1dQGs57 (Colin McKinty)
- The Bring-Your-Own-Device Dilemma - http://bit.ly/161DES9 (Elise Ackerman)
- Tips for the New Admin - http://bit.ly/12Tc8AT (Jeff Orloff)
- What is Shingling? http://bit.ly/160rcQe (Andre Ross)
Vendor News
- Vendor Clips Weekly Update for Week Ending July 22, 2013 - http://bit.ly/18xb2Ai (@ComplexD)
2013 Events
JULY
AUGUST
American Bar Association Annual Meeting
August 8-13, 2013
San Francisco, CA
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August 8-13, 2013
San Francisco, CA
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SEPTEMBER
E-Discovery for Corporate Market Conference
September 17 – 18, 2013
Houston, TX
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September 17 – 18, 2013
Houston, TX
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2013 Conference on Preservation Excellence
September 18-19, 2013
Portland, OR
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September 18-19, 2013
Portland, OR
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Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit North America
September 23 – 25, 2013
Las Vegas, NV
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September 23 – 25, 2013
Las Vegas, NV
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Fifth Annual Intermountain eDiscovery Conference – 2013
September 26, 2013
Salt Lake City, UT
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September 26, 2013
Salt Lake City, UT
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OCTOBER
ACEDS 2013 Corporate E-Discovery Summit
October 10-11, 2013
San Francisco, CA
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October 10-11, 2013
San Francisco, CA
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LawTech Europe Congress 2013
October 21 – 22, 2013
Prague, Czech Republic
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October 21 – 22, 2013
Prague, Czech Republic
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NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
E-Discovery for Corporate Market Conference
December 11 – 12, 2013
Los Angeles, CA
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December 11 – 12, 2013
Los Angeles, CA
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