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Training Employees Before they Hit the SEND Key

Bill Tolson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:49:10 +0000

Time and time again we see news stories and legal case writes ups where it has become obvious employees still have no idea that an email is not a private communication. I find most employees, even corporate legal department types, still consider an email is like a verbal conversation in a parking lot; once its [...]

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Training Employees Before they Hit the SEND Key

Adequately Securing ESI

Bill Tolson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:01:59 +0000

The law firm of Gibson Dunn has just published their mid-year Electronic Discovery and Information Law Update and pointed out some interesting trends. The report can be viewed here. From the Gibson Dunn report: Of the 103 opinions Gibson Dunn analyzed, litigants sought sanctions in 30% (or 31)–compared to 42% in all of 2009–and received sanctions [...]

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Adequately Securing ESI

eDiscovery doesn’t just happen in the United States

Martin Tuip — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:32:06 +0000

I recently ran across a few articles on U.K. developer CPC Group Ltd and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co, which is the real-estate investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund. The decision was that Qatari Diar wrongfully backed out of a deal to redevelop London’s landmark Chelsea Barracks site after the plan was opposed by Prince Charles, a [...]

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eDiscovery doesn’t just happen in the United States

Custodial Self-Discovery and Common Sense

Bill Tolson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:59:46 +0000

The eDiscoveryJournal, recently ran an article about desktop collection for eDiscovery and mentioned the case of Roffe v Eagle Rock, a case involving custodial self-discovery and expectations from the Judge. The transcript from the conversation between the Judge and both parties of the case can be seen here. This transcript is interesting in that the [...]

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Custodial Self-Discovery and Common Sense

Companies Need a Social Media Policy

Bill Tolson — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:33:27 +0000

Reuters had an interesting article on social media policies on June 28 at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLNE65R01920100628 The article pointed out that trying to stop employees from participating in the social media revolution is near impossible and is not the right strategy in any case. The article advocated giving employees some ground rules (via written policy) about what [...]

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Companies Need a Social Media Policy

Putting some real teeth in eDiscovery sanctions will drive effective information management

Bill Tolson — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:00:17 +0000

Ok, I know there is a push back from the legal industry in reference to the problem of the cost of discovery. Yes, companies create, use, receive and delete huge amounts of electronic information on a daily basis and it is unreasonable to expect an organization to have enough of a handle on this moving [...]

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Putting some real teeth in eDiscovery sanctions will drive effective information management

A Proper Legal Hold Requires More Than Just an Email to a Few Employees

Bill Tolson — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:09:53 +0000

In the recent case; Jones v. Bremen High School Dist. 228, 2010 WL 2106640 (N.D. Ill. May 25, 2010), one of the discovery points made in the decision was what is the appropriate legal hold process to meet an organization’s legal hold responsibilities. The court determined that the defendant breached its duty to preserve by [...]

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A Proper Legal Hold Requires More Than Just an Email to a Few Employees

SharePoint Governance should be part of your ECM strategy

Martin Tuip — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:05:43 +0000

I love SharePoint. It came a long way from the first release in 2001 and a lot of organizations are now either planning or deploying SharePoint 2010. For the last year and a half I have spoken at many events (amongst them the Microsoft Worldwide SharePoint Conference) on the need for SharePoint Governance. While some [...]

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SharePoint Governance should be part of your ECM strategy

Reducing the cost of eDiscovery culling and review – to free

Bill Tolson — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:08:11 +0000

From an article at litigationsupporttoday.com The days when an attorney had to touch every document in a collection are gone. The volume of data in a typical case is simply too vast for such an outdated approach. Instead, forward-thinking organizations perform non-substantive reviews – those conducted for purely defensive purposes such as privilege, relevance, and [...]

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Reducing the cost of eDiscovery culling and review – to free

Hosted eDiscovery becomes viable again

Bill Tolson — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:59:52 +0000

Over the last two years, the trend has been to bring some or all of the eDiscovery process in-house, mainly to save money…large amounts of money. This movement to bring eDiscovery in-house has risks associated with it, the risk of not fully being able to effectively meet all the process requirements i.e. not finding/recognizing all [...]

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Hosted eDiscovery becomes viable again