Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – May 19, 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. Beyond the Meet and Confer Basics: Will you be collecting social media data? http://tinyurl.com/272eqk9
2. BigLaw New Normal May Accelerate Changes in How Firms Support Lawyers - http://tinyurl.com/28el6qr
3. Do You Know Where Your Employees' Data Is? http://tinyurl.com/2aaas66
4. ECA and the Prince of Denmark - http://tinyurl.com/292qk3a
5. Eight Ways to Balance Collaboration Efforts with Traditional Records Management - http://tinyurl.com/24qtalk
6. EU Opinion Imperils Privilege for In-House Counsel - http://tinyurl.com/28n8gov
7. Federal Judiciary Launches Enhanced Website - http://tinyurl.com/2a83twk
8. Financial Institutions Now Taking a Holistic Approach to #eDiscovery, Internal Investigations and Compliance - http://tinyurl.com/24os9bq
9. Flood of Lawsuits and Mounds of #eDiscovery Run Apace With Advance of BP Oil Spill - http://tinyurl.com/2cybako
10. Germany Asks Google to Surrender Private Data - http://nyti.ms/bc8pRQ
11. Google’s GC Calls for Information Law Development - http://tinyurl.com/2vszdpj
12. Harmless Error in Bank Robbery Conviction with Inadmissible Character Evidence from MySpace Profile - http://tinyurl.com/283nbn2
13. 'Hot News' and the 'Duty to Police' It - http://tinyurl.com/2esv3k6
14. Introduction to IMRM and Preview of CGOC Information Governance Survey Results - http://tinyurl.com/2d3mugz
15. Lockheed Withheld Discovery Documents in Trade Secrets Case, Court Records Show - http://tinyurl.com/2ctms38
16. Manual Collections of ESI in Electronic Discovery Come under Fire - http://tinyurl.com/2el7z9y
17. Market Numbers On Content Analytics And eDiscovery - http://tinyurl.com/22q7uar
18. Mechanisms That Help Reduce the Cost of E-Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/2cptph
19. National Archives Attorney Offers e-mail Counsel - http://tinyurl.com/337zouj
20. Online #eDiscovery Instruction in Law School Is Now a Reality - http://tinyurl.com/2b9y25a
21. Ruling Underscores Broad Scope of #eDiscovery in Singapore - http://tinyurl.com/2g494b2
22. Spoliation at Street Level? http://tinyurl.com/2f6opo8
23. Taneja Group Opinion: Client-Facing Metrics Lower Risk and Cost - http://scr.bi/9ONWIk
24. The Role of Human Resources in FCPA Compliance-Part II - http://tinyurl.com/2azk5ju
25. To Avoid 'Plain View,' Investigators Need Blinders - http://tinyurl.com/2cxdo9c
26. Update on Spring 2010 EDRM - Meeting - http://tinyurl.com/2898ygs
27. Uptime Uncertain - http://tinyurl.com/2f4drkv
28. Where Were You During the Social Media Boom? http://tinyurl.com/2g7nagu
29. White House Reprimands Deputy CTO for Improper E-mail - http://tinyurl.com/236cj3r
30. Your Cheat Sheet for Local Rule Motion Practice - Part One: Southern District of New York - http://tinyurl.com/2ddkoq6

Content for Understanding Technology

• Brava! Flash Viewer is Mac Compatible - http://tinyurl.com/2a2qk48
• Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls - http://s.nyt.com/u/RH1z
• Consider Open Source Deduplication - http://tinyurl.com/23bujw7
• Electronic Discovery Challenges Presented by the Increasing Use of Microsoft SharePoint - http://tinyurl.com/299xrl4
• IBM chooses Hadoop to Analyze Big Data - http://tinyurl.com/2azqenb
• Microsoft Case Study: Applied Discovery - #eDiscovery Firm Optimizes Production Management System - http://tinyurl.com/2as9vp7
• Troubleshooting Public Folder Replication Problems - http://tinyurl.com/28kj8ql
• Wisconsin Supreme Court Tackles Creating #eDiscovery Standards - http://tinyurl.com/3ylmu8j
• With a Kindle Hiring Spree, Amazon Gears Up for Battle With Apple - http://tinyurl.com/2emdd7y

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• 3PAR Brings Efficiency to Data Governance and Electronic Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/27ctchp
• CA Changes Name, Again - http://tinyurl.com/28mebrk
• CA Technologies Unveils Cloud Management Suite - http://tinyurl.com/2fnmspl
• CT Summation Announces General Availability of Enterprise 2.7 - http://tinyurl.com/275vw7k
• Camerons Set to Outsource Entire Back Office with Integreon Deal - http://tinyurl.com/2g7p5oy
• CaseCentral Joins Cloud Security Alliance - http://tinyurl.com/26afzsp
• CategoriX - from Xerox Litigation Services - http://tinyurl.com/275bmp8
• Clearwell Systems Intros Major E-Discovery Blunders to be Avoided by IT Departments - http://tinyurl.com/28hlw8g
• Daticon EED Announces Addition of Relativity Six to Its Discovery ExpressTM Service Line - http://tinyurl.com/2bf938o
• Digital Reef Partners w/ AltLaw to Provide Highly Scalable #eDiscovery and ECA Outsourcing - http://tinyurl.com/293j2w5
• doeLegal and Zapproved Sign Alliance to Add Legal Hold Pro to Suite of Powerful Online Legal Solutions - http://tinyurl.com/2avfj7s
• EMC Enhances Mozy Cloud Storage Services - http://bit.ly/9eHOZ8
• Equivio Integrates its Near-Duplicates and Email Threads Technology w/SharePoint 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/24oskbf
• FaceTime Launches Security and Compliance Controls for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/2g2zycl
• iCONECT Development Expands Staff and Relocates its Corporate Office - http://tinyurl.com/2djugea
• iCONECT Development Recognizes Top Ten Application Service Providers for 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/288y588
• IPRO Tech Releases Case Database Application, IPRO Eclipse - http://tinyurl.com/3anronq
• Iron Mountain Redefines Hosted eDiscovery with Free Early Stage Filtering, and Powerful Low-Cost Review - http://tinyurl.com/23vcveb
• kCura Relativity Team Recognizes iDiscover Global - http://tinyurl.com/27zkg2f
• LiveOffice CEO Nick Mehta Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2010 Award Finalist - http://tinyurl.com/2fbffpl
• Morgan Stanley Upgraded Iron Mountain To Overweight Based On AlphaWise Survey (IRM) - http://tinyurl.com/24tqgfc
• Navigant Consulting Acquires Daylight Forensic & Advisory - http://tinyurl.com/22m6o2e
• QLogic rolls out InfiniBand Network Optimization Software - http://tinyurl.com/2b9ns3s
• RenewData Manages Exploding Data Growth with Hitachi Data Systems Multitiered Storage Virtualization - http://tinyurl.com/2983om4
• StoredIQ Delivers Market-leading Performance and Scalability with Enhanced Intelligent Info MGT Platform Arch - http://tinyurl.com/272kx8y
• TERIS Enhances Service Offerings With Latest Release of the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform - http://tinyurl.com/26sj78a
• ZL Technologies, Inc. Named as Finalist in 2010 American Business Awards - http://tinyurl.com/2bzqf26

Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Whitlow v. Martin, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96011 (C.D. Ill. Oct. 15, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/236ykwx
• Phillip M. Adams & Assoc., LLC v. Fujitsu Ltd., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25417 (D. Utah Mar. 17, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/232hrky
• U.S. Bank National Association v. Parker, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11579 (E.D. Mo. Feb. 10, 2010).http://tinyurl.com/25pg3aj
• Schreiber Foods, Inc. v. Wang, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12125 (E.D. Wis. Feb. 11, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/2exukkq

eDiscovery Events
May - June Event Update

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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JUNE

TechnoSecurity 2010
June 6-9, 2010
Myrtle Beach, SC
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Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit
June 7-9, 2010
Orlando, Florida
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Microsoft Tech ED 2010
June 7-10, 2010
New Orleans, LA
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ALM: General Counsel Conference
June 8-9, 2010
New York, NY
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eDiscovery Readiness For Government
June 8-9, 2010
Arlington, VA
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LegalWeek Strategic Technology Forum
June 10-12, 2010
Marbella, Spain
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Q1: E-Discovery for Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Corporations Conference
June 14-15, 2010
Chicago, IL
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AIIM Roadshow 2010
June 14-17, 2010
Glasgow, Bolton, Birmingham, London, UK
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Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit
June 21-23, 2010
National Harbor, MD (Washington, DC area)
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ALM: LegalTech West Coast
June 23-24, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
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Digital Asset Management Symposium
June 30, 2010
London, UK
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Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – May 12, 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. Another Indirect Cost of Unethical Corporate Behavior - http://tinyurl.com/24ub3cz
2. Beyond the Meet and Confer Basics: Will you be collecting social media data? - http://tinyurl.com/25z8nxo
3. Big Jump Predicted in Use of eDiscovery, CompTIA Survey Reveals - http://tinyurl.com/26h9nrs
4. Conference Attendees Seek Adjustments, Not Sweeping Change to Litigation Rules - http://tinyurl.com/25w3uog
5. Convicted by Text Message: Overcoming Authentication & Hearsay Objections - http://tinyurl.com/22sqckm
6. Court Orders Monetary Fine for Gross Negligence and Intentional Spoliation of ESI - http://tinyurl.com/2avbgvb
7. Data Mapping Should be a Top Priority for GC and CIOs within the Global 2000 - http://tinyurl.com/27s4g8f 
8. Delaware Co. Establishes New Complex Commercial Litigation Division, Requires Early Consideration of eDiscovery http://tinyurl.com/2dja56p
9. Disclosing Personal Information Across the Border - http://tinyurl.com/32p6qyh
10. Discovery on Enterprise Archives and Content Platforms - http://bit.ly/bES21j
11. Duke Conference on Civil Procedure and eDiscovery-Day 2 - http://tinyurl.com/2a7x6my
12. E-Discovery, Business Goals and Best Practices - http://bit.ly/asmqhm 
13. E-mails Reveal Wells Fargo Worries - http://tinyurl.com/26ghhxm
14. Forensic Evidence and the CSI Effect - http://tinyurl.com/2bgnab7
15. How to Fight Digital Disparagement - http://tinyurl.com/29gzsjk
16. Lawyers' Ethical Stumbles Increase Online - http://tinyurl.com/2caesgu
17. Legal Privilege Still Elusive for EU's In-House Lawyers - http://tinyurl.com/29t7pzm
18. Legal Problems Arising from Social Media: Selected Resources - http://tinyurl.com/28zqfqh
19. Like U2, Enterprise Search Is Older But As Relevant As Ever - http://bit.ly/b00Qpv
20. Mississippi Is Latest State to Enact Data Privacy Law - http://bit.ly/bGSNSi
21. NC Bar Assoc. Issues Proposed Ethical Opinions Approving Use of SaaS / List of Considerations to Minimize Risk - http://tinyurl.com/24dxtdj
22. Risk Management and E-Discovery: Qualcomm Revisited - http://bit.ly/9NceOr
23. Seven Things Your Organization Must Do Because of Social Media - http://tinyurl.com/292d9pk
24. Sharp Increases in Recent FCPA Enforcement - http://tinyurl.com/29asj48
25. Show Us the Love to Avoid Discovery Fights, Attorneys Urge - http://tinyurl.com/27bcxsk
26. The Quest for eDiscovery: Creating a Data Map http://shar.es/mh78p
27. Times Square Bombing Highlights Limitations of Federal Data Mining - http://tinyurl.com/2dq83vt
28. U.S. Companies Misrepresenting EU Directive Safe Harbor Compliance Risk Federal Trade Commission Enforcement Action - http://bit.ly/99Wcou
29. When E-Discovery Is Used as a Weapon - http://tinyurl.com/28nhd6b
30. Workplace Rants On Social Media are Headache for Companies - http://tinyurl.com/2exygd2

Content for Understanding Technology

• CFO Is Becoming the Top IT Decision Maker, Says Gartner and FERF - http://tinyurl.com/2ahcm98
• Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer - http://tinyurl.com/29zurl
• E-Discovery Firm Optimizes Production Management System, Gains Agility, Efficiency - http://tinyurl.com/2as9vp7
• Five Tips on Securing Your Information in the Cloud - http://tinyurl.com/2aqqc6u
• Is Real-Time Search Still Waiting for Mainstream Adoption? http://tinyurl.com/259aqo4
• Joint Chiefs To Increase Social Media Use - http://tinyurl.com/27tpqg7
• VPLEX: The Birth Of A New Storage Platform - http://tinyurl.com/28nvswk
• What CMIS Really Means: Connect My Information Silos http://tinyurl.com/28d5reb

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Altep, Inc. Welcomes Cheryl Patterson to Client Services Team - http://tinyurl.com/y9r2hah
• Bank of America Senior Vice President, John Ritter, Joins DiscoverReady as Chief Operating Officer - http://tinyurl.com/2dwe3a6
• Catalyst Ranked Among Fastest-Growing Inner City Businesses - http://tinyurl.com/2chpq4q
• Clearwell Distills Best Practices to Accelerate Early Case Assessment in Latest Release of E-Discovery Platform:- http://litn.eu/cw01
• Digital Reef Is Selected as an MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation Showcase Finalist - http://tinyurl.com/3ysh4ha
• Email Archiving Provider LiveOffice First to Provide Full Chain of Custody in the Cloud - http://tinyurl.com/279jkda
• EMC Extends Information Governance to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/29fr3l3
• Equivio>Relevance V3.0 Improves User Experience, Streamlines Workflow http://bit.ly/aFpQdf
• Exterro, Inc. Names James FitzGerald Director of Product Marketing and Management - http://tinyurl.com/22qcqvd
• Fios Appoints John Hesse President and Chief Executive Officer - http://tinyurl.com/2axwmgu
• FTI Technology Launches FTI Harvester Offering for Custodian-Based eDiscovery Collection of MS SharePoint Data - http://tinyurl.com/27bx5f8
• Guidance Software Acquires Assets of Forensic Hardware Leader Tableau LLC - http://tinyurl.com/2dn7mdx
• Index Engines Platform Enhancements Further Enable Large Scale Tape Remediation and Management - http://tinyurl.com/29lsrqv
• Iron Mountain and Dell Deliver Integrated Email Archiving Solution - http://tinyurl.com/26vyfpw
• Iron Mountain Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q) http://tinyurl.com/24jqxtx
• LDiscovery, SFL Data Choose Ocarina to Reduce Complexity, Costs While Improving Service - http://tinyurl.com/2dnlsz7
• LECG Corporation Reports First Quarter 2010 Results - http://tinyurl.com/2atw7ze
• LexisNexis UK Enterprise Solutions Launches ‘Managed Services’ Offering - http://tinyurl.com/37d3dre
• Quantum adds SMB Model to Data Deduplication Lineup - http://bit.ly/9GsVDB
• Recommind Delivers Latest Enterprise Search Release With Enhancements for Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) - http://tinyurl.com/287enbf
• StoredIQ and Dell Team to Offer Market-Leading Intelligent eDiscovery and Litigation Readiness Solution - http://tinyurl.com/2fgudlf
• Stroz Friedberg Adds Former Assistant US Attorney Jason Gonzalez in Los Angeles Office - http://tinyurl.com/26ljt9q
• Vendor Clips | May - Consolidated Update of 117 "Vendor Views" between Mar 17-May 5, 2010 - http://bit.ly/bmVzYe
• VMware Acquires GemStone For Building Cloud Computing Applications - http://tinyurl.com/24sm5qp
  

Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Case Summary Alert - Applied Discovery - May 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/23dpo94
• Chang v. United States, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13353 (D.D.C. Feb. 16, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/yb5p3ge
• Star Direct Telecom, Inc. v. Global Crossing, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17318 (W.D.N.Y. Feb. 26, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/22ks9f4
• Hamilton v. First America Title Insurance Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21157 (N.D. Tex. Mar. 8, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/2dk99de
• Hodczak v. Latrobe Specialty Steel Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21267 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 9, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/2887bok

eDiscovery Events
May Event Update 

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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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
Click here for more information.

INTERACT 2010
May 16-19, 2010
Miami, FL
Click here for more information.

MER Conference 2010 - Managing Electronic Records
May 16-17, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
Click here for more information.

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
Click here for more information.

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
Click here for more information .

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
Click here for more information.

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
Click here for more information.

Weekly eDiscovery News and View – April 28, 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. A “Visual Way” to Follow eDiscovery - http://tinyurl.com/27aueyw
   
2. Discarded Buffalo Police Copiers Contain Sensitive Data - http://bit.ly/chT2UY
   
3. FBI Struggles to Pull Criminal Data from Digital Devices - http://bit.ly/9L1Gip
   
4. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Announce the Release of Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines -  http://bit.ly/bULJZR
   
5. Firm finds 5,400 deleted Email Messages of New Orleans’ Mayor Ray Nagin - http://tinyurl.com/29bhstw
   
6. Flexibility, Directness is Key In E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/d0l3iD
   
7. Forbes/MIT: Why We Share Information - http://bit.ly/a8yhuC
   
8. Hard Drives on Personal Computers May Contain More Than You Want Others to Know - http://tinyurl.com/2cg7xz9
   
9. How Structural Features of the U.S. Judicial System  Have Affected the Take-Up of Digital Technology by Courts - http://tinyurl.com/358e98h
   
10. IPOs Are on Upswing but Not Related Legal Fees - http://tinyurl.com/2bqd5fo
    
11. Judge Linked to ‘Lawmiss’ Web Comments Removed from Case - http://tinyurl.com/2dfkud3
    
12. Legal Informatics - A Personal Appraisal of Context and Progress - By Richard Susskind - http://tinyurl.com/26xsjav
    
13. Let There Be Lite: A Brief History of Legal Information Retrieval - http://tinyurl.com/3ymeqwu
    
14. Making Sense of FINRA’s Social Media Guidelines - http://tinyurl.com/26uk56r
    
15. New Law Could Change the Way You Build Database Applications - http://tinyurl.com/298j6aa
    
16. Pinguelo Appears on Fox’s The Strategy Room to Discuss Workplace Internet Abuse - http://tinyurl.com/24ra6ey
    
17. Pressure Points for Achieving eDiscovery Cost Effectiveness - http://tinyurl.com/269dyt4
    
18. Raiders of the Lost Hard Drive - http://tinyurl.com/25a6l9b
    
19. Requesting Data: More is Better - http://tinyurl.com/2f3g7e7
    
20. SCOTUS Dips into Technology with Quon - http://tinyurl.com/2aop5ge
    
21. Senators See Privacy Problem in Facebook Expansion - http://usat.me?38338420
    
22. Sex and the SEC - http://tinyurl.com/28dhbmn
    
23. Structured Data is Neither as Easy nor as Difficult as it Sounds - http://tinyurl.com/38fztsr
    
24. Texas Appeals Court Finds Lower Court's Order to Turn Over Hard Drive Improper - http://bit.ly/aOJm5e
    
25. The 451 Group on eDiscovery and eDisclosure - http://tinyurl.com/2fdu88k
    
26. The European Union  Releases a Research Paper on the Future Opportunities for European Cloud Computing - http://bit.ly/cKv4KC
    
27. The FTC, Blogging, and Your Business - http://tinyurl.com/2ctv7a5
    
28. The Last Words on E-Discovery? http://tinyurl.com/2fxoye8
    
29. Voicemail: The Next eDiscovery Challenge - http://tinyurl.com/23cbv7u
    
30. Was Goldman Sachs GC's Talk With Investors a Mistake? http://bit.ly/a68qLL 

Content for Understanding Technology

• 10 Emerging Technologies 2010 from MIT/Technology Review - http://tinyurl.com/y28hcym
  
• Apple Buys a Chip Maker Behind the iPad Brain - http://nyti.ms/9EYsEm
  
• Backup Isn't Dead, It's Just Evolving - http://tinyurl.com/29xaw56
  
• Cherry-Picking Open Source Licenses - http://tinyurl.com/2dpcpro
  
• Cloud Programming - A New Language Will Improve Online Applications -  http://tinyurl.com/264w5xf
  
• Corporate E-mail in the Cloud: Google vs. Microsoft  - http://tinyurl.com/2atnts7
  
• Ex-SAP CEO Leo Apotheker talks about 'the next big thing' in IT - http://bit.ly/bdo81T
  
• FBI Names Cyber Division Chief - http://tinyurl.com/2aevcvs
  
• Federal CIOs Urge Changes To Entice IT Workers - http://tinyurl.com/28et7qa
  
• Forecast: Expect More Clouds - http://tinyurl.com/2esplrb
  
• Google Buzz & EU - http://bit.ly/a7ki2A
  
• New Hack Pinpoints Cell Phone User's Location, Personal And Business Relationships - http://su.pr/5mVvHk
  
• Patriot Act May Hamper Cloud Computing Adoption - http://tinyurl.com/yafblrl
  
• Riskless Storage Efficiency: What It Is and Why IT Managers Need to Deliver on It - http://tinyurl.com/27ucu78
  
• The State of Modular Storage is Changing - http://tinyurl.com/27tqee4
  
• We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint - http://nyti.ms/c8GATa
  
• Why CIOs Are Choosing Cloud E-Mail - http://tinyurl.com/347wb25

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Alterian Extends Social Media Monitoring Capabilities to Arabic Market - http://bit.ly/9eDxwe
  
• Applied Discovery - End User Views of E-Discovery and E-Disclosure - http://tinyurl.com/269jyde
  
• Autonomy Creative Accounting? http://tinyurl.com/22wdp2k
  
• DOAR Litigation Consulting Acquires Inference Data - http://tinyurl.com/23w5ql7
  
• Electronic Data Extraction Network (EDEN) Celebrates One Year Anniversary - http://tinyurl.com/2e48x3y
  
• Epiq Systems Announces Q1-2010 Results - http://bit.ly/bmdn59
  
• Legal Document Lifecycle Management with Litera Live - http://twurl.nl/iivdlk
  
• New Integrated Analytics on the Catalyst CR Platform - http://tinyurl.com/263d323
  
• StoredIQ Announces Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 http://bit.ly/cBD6zw

Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co., 529 F.3d 892 (9th Cir. 2008); City of Ontario v. Quon (08-1332) http://tinyurl.com/3ayxlgd
  
• Virgin Records America, Inc. v. Doe, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21701 (E.D.N.C. Mar. 16, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/2b7wem8
  
• Plew v. Limited Brands, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39715 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 23, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/259fjlp
  
• Sec. Exchange Comm. v. Schroeder, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39378 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 27, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/2c5w9jh
  
• Linde v. Arab Bank, PLC, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43439 (E.D.N.Y. May 22, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/24nvfab

eDiscovery Events
May Event Update 

Text Mining 2010
May 1, 2010
Columbus, Ohio
Click here for more information.
 

Inter-Pacific Bar Association 20th Annual Conference
May 2-5, 2010
Singapore
Click here for more information.

2010 ALA Annual Conference
May 3, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts
Click here for more information.

The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference
May 7-8, 2010
Washington, D.C.
Click here for more information.

EMC World 2010
May 10-14, 2010
Boston, MA
Click here for more information.

Argyle Executive Forum: 2010 Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum
May 11, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.

EDRM Kickoff Meeting Update
May 11-13, 2010
St. Paul, MN
Click here for more information.

INTERACT 2010
May 16-19, 2010
Miami, FL
Click here for more information.

MER Conference 2010 - Managing Electronic Records
May 16-17, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
Click here for more information.

IQPC Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit
May 17-19, 2010
London, UK
Click here for more information.

Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit
May 17-18, 2010
London, UK
Click here for more information.

ALM - Virtual LegalTech
May 20, 2010
Online
Click here for more information.

DRI: Drug & Medical Device
May 20-21, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.

ITechLaw: 2010 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 20-21, 2010
Boston, MA
Click here for more information .

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
Click here for more information.

InsideCounsel SuperConference
May 25-26, 2010
Chicago, IL
Click here for more information.

IBA Technology Law Conference
May 25-26, 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark
Click here for more information.

IQPC: 7th Annual Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil & Gas
May 26-27, 2010
Houston, TX
Click here for more information.

USSTRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium
May 26-27, 2010
Omaha, NE
Click here for more information.

SpeechTEK
May 26-27, 2010
London, UK
Click here form more information.

ACC Europe Annual Conference
May 30 - June 1, 2010
Vienna, Austria
Click here for more information.

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – April 21, 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. An End User View of eDiscovery and eDisclosure - http://tinyurl.com/2fdu88k
   
2. Dead Men Tell No Tales, But Deleted Evidence Does - http://tinyurl.com/yyfzjpw
   
3. Digital Forensics and Social Media - http://bit.ly/dkW4OM
   
4. DOJ Releases Email Retention Policy In Response to FOIA Request from CREW - http://tinyurl.com/y4clrcz
   
5. Do U Know If U Know Unicode? http://tinyurl.com/y7ulj5c
   
6. E-Discovery: How To Avoid Death By Backup - http://tinyurl.com/y7nnjvn
   
7. E-Discovery Canada Case Law Digest Updated - http://tinyurl.com/y3v55zx
   
8. EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search - http://bit.ly/bpnVkF
   
9. FBI General Counsel Stands Her Ground in Phone Records Flap - http://tinyurl.com/y2oqfp2
   
10. First Impressions: SharePoint 2010 for Law Firms - http://tinyurl.com/y4l8bwz
    
11. Georgetown Law “Corporate Counsel – Europe”: A Video Interview with Mario Monti - http://tinyurl.com/y2cmqfy
    
12. 'Litigation Prenup' to Be Unveiled at Pepperdine Conference - http://tinyurl.com/y3zvq4s
    
13. Maine eDiscovery Sanctions Revisited: Spooner v. Egan - http://tinyurl.com/y46u72d
    
14. Mending Walls: Information Sharing after the USA Patriot Act - http://bit.ly/c7SHHm
    
15. New Look for Ontario E-Laws Website - http://tinyurl.com/y7887xx
    
16. Pew Internet Report Reveals What Everyone Already Knows: Teens Like To Text - http://tcrn.ch/bzZDFy
    
17. Police Data on Copiers Causes City to Scramble - http://bit.ly/bTHxzT
    
18. Qualcomm: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb - http://tinyurl.com/28vhdxp
    
19. School District Snapped 56,000 Images on Student Webcams http://ow.ly/177zSW
    
20. Taking Solicitors to Task - http://post.ly/aoCE
    
21. The EDRM Framework Guide for Review - http://tinyurl.com/y4pyq6g
    
22. They Can Sue You: Navigating the Foreign eDiscovery Mine Field - http://tinyurl.com/y58lpr8
    
23. US Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Text Message Privacy Case - http://bit.ly/cqdi03
    
24. What Can Happen When Lawyers Delegate Their e-Discovery Duties to a Client - http://tinyurl.com/y4896s7
    
25. Why ECPA Should Make You Think Twice about the Cloud - http://flne.ws/23850584

Content for Understanding Technology 

• 30 New Features in Exchange Server  2010 SP1 - http://tinyurl.com/y24zqjp
  
• Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System - http://nyti.ms/9ZlDFV
  
• Facebook May Launch Recommendation Service For Other Websites - http://tinyurl.com/y2qybj3
  
• Facebook Ads Will Use Your Web History - http://tinyurl.com/y67xvms
  
• Global CIO: Steve Ballmer  Interview: 'Hockey Stick' Cloud Growth Ahead - http://tinyurl.com/y24g2as
  
• Google Reveals the Future of Printing With Google Cloud Print - http://tinyurl.com/y7jc8s4
  
• How Big Is Twitter Really? http://tinyurl.com/yyt9jso
  
• Hybrid Email Archiving Offers an Alternative to On-Premise and Hosted Email Archiving - http://tinyurl.com/yyll9nj
  
• Storage Networking Product Roadmaps Gone Bad - http://cot.ag/cHMnLW
  
• Tailor Cloud-Computing Contracts for EDD http://tinyurl.com/y27lf3e
  
• The OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee - http://tinyurl.com/5cxnvc
  
• This is What a Tweet Looks Like - http://tinyurl.com/y3kr4hn
  
• Transparency And Trust: Vital Concepts In Cloud Computing - http://tinyurl.com/y2toxf8
  
• UN Rejects International Cybercrime Treaty - http://tinyurl.com/y5fxob7

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Applied Discovery - Considering Review Performance - http://www.scribd.com/doc/29844745
  
• Cricket Technologies Announces Cricket Discovery Suite Version 6.0 - http://tinyurl.com/y7akbew
  
• Digital Reef Partners With Flex Discovery for eDiscovery Projects - http://tinyurl.com/y653zp5
  
• Exterro and eDiscovery Solutions Group Partner to Streamline Data Mapping Processes - http://tinyurl.com/y6na4ns
  
• Foot Anstey Engages Integreon for Library and Information Services - http://bit.ly/dcV4Dd
  
• Iron Mountain Incorporated Schedules First Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and Conference Call http://tinyurl.com/y2m2xem
  
• Iron Mountain's New Litigation Support Solution Cuts Cost and Complexity of eDiscovery - http://tinyurl.com/y6pweop
  
• Iterasi Offers Web-based eDiscovery Product - http://tinyurl.com/y7hfl9p
  
• LexisNexis UK Unites Software Businesses to Form LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions - http://tinyurl.com/y3yaxfh
  
• Mitratech Enhances TeamConnect Legal Hold With Streamlined UI - http://tinyurl.com/y648q2g
  
• OmniWatch Intelligence and Digital Forensic Group Form Strategic Partnership - http://tinyurl.com/y4xk5yx
  
• Open Text Shares Double in Value Over 18 Months - http://tinyurl.com/y3dx95w
  
• Sepaton Taps HDS for Enterprise VTLs - http://tinyurl.com/y4jtgxq
  
• Symantec Plugs leaks from Social Networks - http://tinyurl.com/y35lh9n
  
• TERIS and Zapproved Partner to Deliver Legal Hold Pro to Law Firms and Corporations - http://tinyurl.com/y26pshg
  
• Wave Software Offers Relativity Clients Extended Free Trial - http://tinyurl.com/y83m87u
  
• Winston  & Strawn Litigation Partner Joins American Discovery as CEO - http://tinyurl.com/y75mt4r
  
• Wyatt Tarrant & Combs LLP Selects Clearwell to Streamline E-Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/y2de47m
  
• ZyLAB Named to Inaugural KMWorld Hall of Fame  - http://tinyurl.com/y66yqbc

Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• NA Rescue Prod. Inc. v. Bound Tree Med. 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118316 (S.D. Ohio Nov. 19, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/y4wyrka
  
• Johnson v. United States Bank Nat. Assoc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120111 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 3, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/y7db42p
  
• Cornwell v. No. Ohio Surgical Center, Ltd., 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 5814 (Ohio Ct. App. Dec. 31, 2009). http://tinyurl.com/y7l6spn
  
• Dowling v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 2299 (6th Cir. Feb. 3, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/yyqhwq8

eDiscovery Events
April – May Event Update

IAPP Global Privacy Summit
April 19-21, 2010
Washington, DC
Click here for more information.

info360 AIIM International Exposition and Conference
April 20-22, 2010
Philadelphia, PA
Click here for more information.

IQPC: 9th E-Discovery West Coast
April 26-28, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.

Legal IT 4.0
April 26-27, 2010
Montreal, Canada
Click here for more information.

ILTA: INSIGHT 2010
April 27, 2010
London, England
Click here for more information.

ARMA Houston 2010 Conference
April 27-28, 2010
Houston, TX
Click here for more information.

MAY

Inter-Pacific Bar Association 20th Annual Conference
May 2-5, 2010
Singapore
Click here for more information.

EMC World 2010
May 10-14, 2010
Boston, MA
Click here for more information.

Argyle Executive Forum: 2010 Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum
May 11, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.

EDRM Kickoff Meeting Update
May 11-13, 2010
St. Paul, MN
Click here for more information.

INTERACT 2010
May 16-19, 2010
Miami, FL
Click here for more information.

IQPC Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit
May 17-19, 2010
London, UK
Click here for more information.

ALM - Virtual LegalTech
May 20, 2010
Online
Click here for more information.

DRI: Drug & Medical Device
May 20-21, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.

ITechLaw: 2010 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 20-21, 2010
Boston, MA
Click here for more information .

ACC 2010 Corporate Counsel University (CCU)
May 23-25, 2010
Indianapolis, IN
Click here for more information .

DODIIS Worldwide Conference
May 23-27, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
Click here for more information.

PLI: International Litigation 2010
May 24, 2010
New York, NY
Click here for more information.

CEIC 2010
May 24-27, 2010
Summerlin, Nevada
Click here for more information.

InsideCounsel SuperConference
May 25-26, 2010
Chicago, IL
Click here for more information.

IQPC: 7th Annual Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil & Gas
May 26-27, 2010
Houston, TX
Click here for more information.

USSTRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium
May 26-27, 2010
Omaha, NE
Click here for more information.

SpeechTEK
May 26-27, 2010
London, UK
Click here form more information.

ACC Europe Annual Conference
May 30 - June 1, 2010
Vienna, Austria
Click here for more information.

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – April 14, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news and views highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery

1. Assigning Value to E-Discovery's Unknown - http://bit.ly/co0QwJ
   
2. Clearly Written Policies Give Companies The Right To Search Company-Owned Computers for ESI - http://tinyurl.com/y2yc6be
   
3. Compliance Officers Play to Bigger Room - http://tinyurl.com/yh68lx2
   
4. Court Denies Change of Venue  Request for Law Firm Against eDiscovery Vendor Kroll - http://bit.ly/9snfGP
   
5. Departing Employee Technology Checklist: Keeping the Fox Out of the Henhouse - http://tinyurl.com/y4r5e3p
   
6. District Court Revisits Qualcomm and Declines to Issue Sanctions - Legal Hold Lessons Learned - http://bit.ly/9soNym
   
7. eDiscovery Challenges in China - http://tinyurl.com/y4zpxt2
   
8. Facebook Terminations: Friends Don’t Let Friends Talk Smack About Their Job - http://tinyurl.com/y9yxu42
   
9. Feds Declare that Blogs and Social Networks are Public Meetings - http://tinyurl.com/y86epje
   
10. Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education - http://bit.ly/bMV3Ci
    
11. Legal Tech Meets Law Firm Strategy - http://tinyurl.com/yedumgn
    
12. Measuring Review? http://bit.ly/9hdlN6
    
13. Most eDiscovery Costs Wasted on Extraneous Information - http://tinyurl.com/y6jkzfw
    
14. NIST: Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information - http://tinyurl.com/y3xwahg
    
15. NJ Supreme Court Addresses Privilege in Employee Web-Based Personal Email Accounts - http://tinyurl.com/y33z5ju
    
16. No Bright-Line Rules on E-Discovery http://bit.ly/cgjGVs
    
17. Ofsted has shown WHY we should collect data properly and now lawyers must find out HOW - http://wp.me/p2KJ5-NV
    
18. Outsourcing of Managed Reviews - http://tinyurl.com/y7a5gqe
    
19. Pardo on a Unified Theory of Civil Litigation - http://tinyurl.com/y23fcex
    
20. Practice Points – Archiving & Legal Holds – An ESI Recipe for Efficiency and Cost Reduction - http://tinyurl.com/ydhrsl4
    
21. Prosecution, Defense Spar at Close of KB Home Backdating Trial - http://tinyurl.com/y856rtb
    
22. Rethinking Relevance: A Call to Modify the Rules of Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/y43dt3q
    
23. Sanction Recommended Over Missed Discovery Deadline in Ex-Holland & Knight Partner's Suit - http://tinyurl.com/y3ktn3w
    
24. Social Media Research Repository - Jury Instructions In Re: Technology and Social Media - http://tinyurl.com/yhvvjso
    
25. Social Networking Pitfalls for Judges, Attorneys - http://bit.ly/dpxZEQ
    
26. The Current State of Email Retention Policies - http://tinyurl.com/yeemh65
    
27. The Economist: "Copyright and Wrong" - http://bit.ly/byDUyb
    
28. The HIPAA/HITECH Era Is Under Way - http://tinyurl.com/ydyrl6z
    
29. Top Five Legal Issues For The Cloud - http://tinyurl.com/yyjbhge
    
30. Toyota Crashes The Party - http://tinyurl.com/ycondlp

Content for Understanding Technology 

• A Checklist for Cloud Computing Deals - http://tinyurl.com/ycktgtc
  
• Cloud Computing Savings: Do they add up? http://bit.ly/bQxp2q
  
• Keeping Medical Data Private - http://bit.ly/9QHQm5
  
• Microsoft's New Office Faces the Web - http://bit.ly/aIowCc
  
• Review: The Apple iPad - http://tcrn.ch/bqW741
  
• SNIA Completes Cloud Storage Standard - http://tinyurl.com/y5s4tgs
  
• SNIA Standard Should Help in Moving Cloud Data http://bit.ly/bEGmfD
  
• The 10 Big Ideas That Are Shaping IT Infrastructure Today - http://tinyurl.com/yzov6at
  
• Time for Unplanning? A New Way Of Considering Business Planning - http://tinyurl.com/ydd6eeq
  
• Twitter's Global Growth by the Official Numbers http://j.mp/99unil
  
• U.K. Government Develops CC-Like License for Data - http://tinyurl.com/yynnztg

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Applied Discovery - Considering Review Performance - http://www.scribd.com/doc/29844745
• Autonomy Corp: License Pact With US Internal Revenue Service - http://tinyurl.com/y69n75s
• CommVault Users Poised to Benefit from Increased Clarity on Legal eDiscovery  and Data Preservation Requirements - http://tinyurl.com/y5rnv7h
• dtSearch Expands - http://bit.ly/atHJTW
• Epiq Systems, Inc. First Quarter 2010 Results to be Announced April 27, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/y2yhrt2
• FalconStor® HyperFS™ Creates New Performance and Scalability Benchmarks for Private Storage Clouds - http://tinyurl.com/y6yw66r
• Google Buys A Visual Search Company - http://bit.ly/b2y6SG
• Guidance Software Announces Availability of EnCase® Portable Version 2 - http://tinyurl.com/y7b9om5
• Guidance Software to Announce 2010 First Quarter Financial Results - http://tinyurl.com/y8candk
• High-End Demand Gives Intel a Lift - http://tinyurl.com/y6zb8nc
• HP Completes Acquisition of 3Com - http://bit.ly/aNpvr2
• Introducing Hire Counsel Discovery Review Management Services - http://tinyurl.com/ydvy3ak
• NEC integrates HYDRAstor with Symantec's OpenStorage API http://tinyurl.com/y9uzf95
• Nexidia and AV3 Unite to ‘Get’ Video Search - http://tinyurl.com/y3zhccg
• Nuix and FileControl Partners Announce Strategic Alliance to Offer Accelerated Litigation Process Services - http://tinyurl.com/yllovz3
• Open Text makes Quick Use of NStein Assets - http://tinyurl.com/yf37vcz
• Rackspace Unveils iPad Cloud App - http://tinyurl.com/y9zg65w
• Xiotech's CorteX to change the Storage World - http://tinyurl.com/y57j8w7

Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., "Stengart II", 2010 N.J. LEXIS 241 (N.J. Mar. 30, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/y7wrtuh
• Covad Comm. Co. v. Revonet, Inc., "Covad IV", 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31165 (D.D.C. Mar. 31, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/y7w8py5
• United States v. Benford, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29453 (N.D. Ind. Mar. 26, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/y7k4now

eDiscovery Events
April Industry Event Update

• IQPC: Corporate Counsel Exchange
  April 18-20, 2010
  Brussels, Belgium
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• The Computer Forensics Show
  April 19-20, 2010
  New York, NY
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• ALM: Social Media Risks & Rewards
  April 19, 2010
  San Francisco, CA
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• IAPP Global Privacy Summit
  April 19-21, 2010
  Washington, DC
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• info360 AIIM International Exposition and Conference
  April 20-22, 2010
  Philadelphia, PA
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• Green Legal Matters
  April 26-28, 2010
  New Orleans, LA
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• IQPC: 9th E-Discovery West Coast
  April 26-28, 2010
  San Francisco, CA
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• Legal IT 4.0
  April 26-27, 2010
  Montreal, Canada
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• ILTA:  INSIGHT 2010
  April 27, 2010
  London, England
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• ARMA Houston 2010 Conference
  April 27-28, 2010
  Houston, TX
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Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – April 7, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news and views highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.
eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery

1. 3rd Annual e-Discovery Survey of Illinois Lawyers - http://bit.ly/dCT9Ef
   
2. A Closer Look at “Forensic Collection” - http://tinyurl.com/y85kucb
   
3. Breaking News: Qualcomm “No Sanctions” Order Issued - http://tinyurl.com/yffl6zb
   
4. Chinese Hackers Steal Dalai Lama's Emails - http://tinyurl.com/ya5wu9w
   
5. Concept Searching Saves Clients Thousands - http://bit.ly/aSYQNW
   
6. Controlling Legal Costs - Law Firms Promote E- Discovery Reform - Provide Data - http://tinyurl.com/y9kpbab
   
7. Court Declines to Impose Sanctions Against Qualcomm Attorneys Absent Evidence of Bad Faith - http://bit.ly/bMU4VE
   
8. Court Orders Forensic Exam of Plaintiff's Computers Absent Denial "Responsive Emails May have Existed" - http://tinyurl.com/y8w247y
   
9. Court tells Artist to Come Clean - http://tinyurl.com/yczlv8s
   
10. Discovery Failure Sinks Lockheed's $37 Million Win - http://tinyurl.com/yb8go5m
    
11. Documents Prove Toyota Hid 'Sticky Pedal' Problem from Regulators - http://bit.ly/ddXXQd
    
12. E-Discovery Metrics – One of the Four Pillars of e-Discovery - http://bit.ly/b2V1jy
    
13. Electronic Disclosure: Paying Lawyers to Look at Porn - http://tinyurl.com/yjdmgr5
    
14. Fight Runaway E-Discovery Costs: How You Can Help - http://tinyurl.com/ybg5sag
    
15. From Georgetown Law: Emerging Trends in Legal Services (Video Interviews) - http://bit.ly/byhVlV
    
16. Germany Focuses on Data Protection and Privacy - http://tinyurl.com/ycth77u
    
17. Intel Case Tests Liability for Stolen Code - http://tinyurl.com/yzzf2na
    
18. Law Firm Evolution or Revolution? http://bit.ly/coLQWR
    
19. LinkedIn Evidence In A Lawsuit -- It Was Only A Matter of Time - http://bit.ly/cbgoGD
    
20. New Case on Employee Privacy Expectations for E-Mails - http://tinyurl.com/yc6cxyn
    
21. New York State Unified Court System Report Makes Recommendations for Improved E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/9h5vpE
    
22. Predictability in EDD Rules Remain Elusive - http://tinyurl.com/ybxh5mv
    
23. Professor Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) Essay: Pre-Trial as Trial in Complex Litigation - http://tinyurl.com/ybs738t
    
24. Quick, Easy, Cheap - http://tinyurl.com/yl6et3d
    
25. The Top Remaining eDiscovery Events of 2010 - http://bit.ly/aeUEON
    
26. Third Party and Requestor Ordered to Share Costs of Production from Database created from Backup Tapes - http://tinyurl.com/ycd3rdz
    
27. Twitter Termination: What Reality Television Can Teach Us - http://tinyurl.com/ya6wmhv
    
28. Virtual Offices May Violate Ethics Rules, New Jersey Opinion Says - http://ow.ly/16ZyV9
    
29. When is an Employee Expert an Expert Who Must Prepare a Report? http://bit.ly/a03G1s
    
30. When Mercy Seasons Justice by Craig Ball/EDD Update - http://tinyurl.com/yewn8ub

Content for Understanding Technology 

• 7 Reasons for Email Archiving - http://tinyurl.com/ygw3dd9
  
• A New Legal Review Performance Module - http://tinyurl.com/ylzm3h5
  
• Cloud Computing Analyst & Advisor Gives an Overview of the Security Risks of Multi Tenancy - http://bit.ly/1zFz3
  
• “Digital Due Process” Coalition Lobbies for Greater Online Privacy Protection - http://bit.ly/d9dLIR
  
• ECA = Early Carbon Assessment - Green Calculator for eDiscovery  - http://tinyurl.com/yclq9fn
  
• EFF Fighting For Whistleblower's Privacy Rights, Following Sham Lawsuit - http://bit.ly/dfynoi
  
• FBI and Microsoft Fast Question - http://tinyurl.com/ybfr4ch
  
• Fewer Than One in Ten Companies Evaluate Vendors or Train Employees on Cloud Security - http://tinyurl.com/y8psbht
  
• iPad’s File System Suggests New Apple Devices on the Way - http://bit.ly/92wNkw
  
• Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives - http://bit.ly/bWQqRx
  
• Mastering NAS Management: A Network-Attached Storage Case Study - http://tinyurl.com/yl9qy3q
  
• NIST Workshop Takes First Steps Toward Standards for Preserving Digital Data - http://tinyurl.com/ygwkkbj
  
• Nobody's Perfect at the ABA TECHSHOW - http://tinyurl.com
  
• Playing Russian Roulette with Corporate Data - http://tinyurl.com/yjw59xl
  
• "SaaS Versus Client-Server Model: Why is SaaS a More Successful Platform?  http://bit.ly/d3BM2g
  
• 'SHADOWS IN THE CLOUD: Investigating Cyber Espionage 2.0' - http://www.scribd.com/doc/29435784
  
• The European Union Releases a Research Paper on the Future Opportunities of European Cloud Computing - http://bit.ly/aCORpL
  
• The Risk of Information Management Neglect - http://cot.ag/9c6uGq
  
• "The Seductive Power of Surveillance" - http://bit.ly/aZydHp
  
• Updated EDRM File Formats Data Set Now Available - http://bit.ly/coMbIB
  
• Why TREC Matters to Electronic Data Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/y93kzvl

Vendor Views Industry Landscape

• 50 of the Top eDiscovery Providers - http://bit.ly/cJvYJn
  
• Applied Discovery Review Performance Module Changes E-Discovery Review Management Landscape - http://tinyurl.com/yklb3or
  
• CaseCentral Expands to New Company Headquarters - http://litn.eu/cc01
  
• CommVault Announces Simpana 8 Software Now Offers Streamlined Data Management for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 http://tinyurl.com/yzj6faz
  
• DLP's Data Classification and Ownership Features do not Mask the Value of Inactive Data, They Uncover It - http://tinyurl.com/yb2pxwg
  
• Enterprise Vault Gets Vivisimo Search Engine - http://tinyurl.com/y98to88
  
• FTI Consulting Buying Hong Kong Firm - http://tinyurl.com/yhfjpk6
  
• Hot Neuron Releases Clustify 2.2 - http://bit.ly/92XOzj
  
• It's Acquisition Time: Bighand Buys UK Rival nFlow - http://tinyurl.com/yg23dz2
  
• kCura Offers New Relativity Analytics Training - http://bit.ly/dfylIN
  
• MessageSolution Exhibits Cloud-Based Integrated Archiving Solution for Email, File Systems and SharePoint - http://tinyurl.com/y8he4cv
  
• Microsoft Announces Office Communications Server 14R - http://tinyurl.com/y8dyfe3
  
• Microsoft Utilizes Integreon LPO Services to Gain Efficiencies While Reducing Costs - http://tinyurl.com/yzu87cb
  
• Reveal launches Data Trail - http://bit.ly/astyUJ
  
• ZyLAB eDiscovery System Integrates Text Analytics - Streamlines ECA, Litigation Readiness and Preparedness - http://tinyurl.com/y95ycfc

Case Summaries Electronic Discovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)

• In re Subpoenas, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21947 (W.D. Va. Mar. 10, 2010) http://tinyurl.com/ylfkchy
  
• Hamilton v. First America Title Insurance Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21157 (N.D. Tex. Mar. 8, 2010) http://tinyurl.com/yho6hyl
  
• Chang v. United States, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13353 (D.D.C. Feb. 16, 2010)  http://tinyurl.com/y8zb28n
  
• Naylor v. Rotech Healthcare, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120142 (D. Vt. Dec. 23, 2009)  http://tinyurl.com/ycs9msj
  
• Gillett v. Michigan Farm Bureau, 2009 Mich. App. LEXIS 2666 (Mich. Ct. App. Dec. 22, 2009) http://tinyurl.com/ydrs59o
  
• Applied Discovery Case Summary Library - http://tinyurl.com/y99ql6v