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Electronic Evidence Discovery Expands Services in the United Kingdom

Electronic Evidence Discovery Expands Services in the United Kingdom

"In a strategy to extend its services, Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc., (EED) the leading provider in the eDiscovery market, today announced that it is establishing an EED processing center in London, England. The new processing center will enable EED to expand services to existing clients and broaden its potential client base."

How law firms are coping in the era of e-discovery

How law firms are coping in the era of e-discovery

"With the amendments to the federal rules regarding electronic discovery just over a year old and the amendments to the Maryland rules effective this month, the courts are adjusting to the reality that most business and personal communications — potential evidence in litigation — originate in and travel by computer.

Maryland’s Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm called striking the balance between timely justice and the rising cost of performing e-discovery, where potentially millions of pages of documents are prospective evidence, 'a bigger challenge now than the system itself has ever faced.'

Likewise, litigators are doing some of their own adjusting: determining how to access sometimes years-old e-mails, manage gigabytes of text and figure out who actually wrote what, and when — regardless of what a letter’s date or signature might say."

Sometimes, You See, Email Really Does Get Lost

Below is the link to a blogger's well-crafted satire about the White House's lost emails.  (My previous posts on this subject are here.)

Sometimes, You See, Email Really Does Get Lost

"An internal White House study has claimed that between 2003 and 2005, emails from 473 of those days are gone.

It kind of makes that excuse 'the dog ate my homework' pale by comparison.

There are 730 days in the two years between 2003 and 2005. That means 65% of all emails have disappeared. (Actually, to be accurate, it's 64.79452%. But somehow, accuracy seems so beside-the-point here.)"

One Perspective on the EED v. Sullivan Cromwell Case

Here's one blogger's perspective on the EED v. Sullivan Cromwell case.  I think the title says it all: "How a White Shoe Law Firm Disputes a Bill."

Kroll Ontrack Launches Ontrack(R) PowerControls(TM) Version 5.0

Kroll Ontrack Launches Ontrack(R) PowerControls(TM) Version 5.0

"Kroll Ontrack, a leading provider of data recovery and legal technologies products and services, today announced the availability of Ontrack PowerControl, the newest version of the company's award-winning mailbox recovery tool. Designed to perform fast and easy e-mail search and Exchange server recovery directly from Microsoft Exchange Server backups, Ontrack PowerControls 5.0 further simplifies the restoration process while maintaining internal security policies."  [Stock quotes omitted.]

(Source: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/finance/article/
kroll-ontrack-launches-ontrackr-powercontrolstm-version-50_436849_9.html.)

Deloitte buys into litigation firm

Deloitte buys into litigation firm

"Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Deloitte FAS) has just purchased a stake in Barrasso Consulting LLC, a firm specialising in planning and executing litigation discovery programs. As part of the transaction, Barrasso will be fully integrated within Deloitte FAS' forensic and dispute services practice as a new service called ‘document review services’."

(Source: http://www.accountancyage.com/accountancyage/news/2207185/deloitte-buys-litigation-firm.)

Emag Solutions acquires Innovative Technology

Emag Solutions acquires Innovative Technology

"US-based data transformation and electronic discovery services provider Emag Solutions has     acquired Microsoft exchange server and disaster recovery services provider Innovative     Technology Concepts to enhance its data recovery services."

(Source: http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=E8DFC09F-6555-418D-9DAB-3DDC150350FD.)

Another View of Amended FRCP One Later

Chicken Little-gation In the Electronic World

A year ago, the rules that govern litigation in our federal courts were amended to require lawyers and clients to deal head on with electronically stored information (ESI). On December 1, 2006, changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) went into effect. Prior to the amendments, litigants routinely ignored ESI and, operating under a doctrine of "mutually assured destruction," refrained from seeking it from their adversaries for fear they would be compelled to do the same.

The complete story is here.

FRCP & eDiscovery: One year later

FRCP and e-discovery: One year later

"This week marks the first anniversary of changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which mandates the speedy recovery of electronically stored information. In the intervening year, oodles of vendors have tweaked their archiving products to meet the requirements of the FRCP, adding search and rapid retrieval capability, as well as the ability to audit operations."

Here's the complete story.

White House Ordered to Preserve Emails

U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy, a Clinton-appointee, ordered the White House to preserve copies of emails in backup tapes, after rejecting the Justice Department's proposal of a White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes.  The order was issued pursuant to two lawsuits brought by two private groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive.

Marbury v. Madison, Part II?

Here's the article.