Paisley Park Enters., Inc. v. Boxill No. 17-cv-1212 (WMW/TNL) (D. Minn. Mar. 4, 2019) In this case involving the alleged infringement of music created by the late artist Prince, the court granted in part the plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions based on the defendants’...
Equal Emp’t Opportunity Comm’n v. Performance Food Grp. No. CCB-13-1712 (D. Md. Mar. 6, 2019) In this employment discrimination case, the court denied the plaintiff’s motions for sanctions involving both paper records and ESI. It found that the plaintiff failed to...
In-house Insights with Brad Harris Why Create a Preservation Plan Legal Hold Best Practices Series Part 1 Our goal for Elevate Ediscovery is to provide practical guidance and actionable tips for in-house ediscovery professionals on an array of ediscovery topics. Today...
In-house Insights with Brad Harris Going Beyond Litigation Driving Down the Cost of Ediscovery Part 7 Saving Money in Ediscovery and Beyond The essence of ediscovery is twofold: managing data and extracting useful information that can then be used to tell a story....
In-house Insights with Brad Harris Culling & Review Driving Down the Cost of Ediscovery Part 6 Culling and Reviewing Data Efficiently Responding to your discovery obligations is all about effectively and efficiently culling your data to separate the wheat...
Ennis-Flint, Inc. v. Greer No. 18-CVS-3612, 2019 NCBC 11 (N.C. Business Court Feb. 4, 2019) In this case alleging breach of contract and trade secret theft, the North Carolina Business Court granted the plaintiff a preliminary injunction after the defendant admitted...
In-house Insights with Brad Harris Targeted Collections Driving Down the Cost of Ediscovery Part 5 Targeting Your Collections Traditional approaches to ediscovery have relied on broad collection, such as copying the entire contents of a mailbox or hard drive, followed...
Edwards v. 4JLJ, LLC, No. 2:15-CV-299 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 11, 2019) In this case seeking unpaid overtime wages, the court previously imposed sanctions against the defendants for their discovery abuses. This order denied their motion to reconsider those sanctions or to...
In-house Insights with Brad Harris Robust Preservation Practices Driving Down the Cost of Ediscovery Part 4 Creating Robust Preservation Practices Without rigorous preservation of discoverable data, there can be no ediscovery. What’s more, investing in your approach...
Read all about it! The Sedona Conference just published a long awaited revision to its legal hold best practices guide, the Commentary on Legal Holds, Second Edition: The Trigger & The Process (free to download, registration required). Over the past two years,...
OptoLum, Inc. v. Cree, Inc., No. 1:17CV687, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217678 (M.D.N.C. Dec. 28, 2018) In this case alleging patent infringement, the court held that restoration of an email archiving system would be proportional to the value of the case. However, because...
In-house Insights with Brad Harris Proportionality & Case Preparation Driving Down the Cost of Ediscovery Part 3 Assessing Your Case With an Eye Toward Proportionality A key to driving down the cost of ediscovery is to recognize that most preservation and...
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