Data management
Assessing Your Data Maps in a Newly Distributed World
Corporate legal departments are reassessing existing data maps as newly distributed teams add remote work technology and virtual access. Here are some tips!
In-House Legal Security: Manage Threats Using The Cloud
There are two major categories of security features cloud vendors can offer to address threats. Technology and operations each contribute to data security.
In-House Legal Security: Understand the Threat Landscape
Data security sits at the intersection of ediscovery data, cloud vendors and legal operations. Here are common security threats and how cloud vendors address them.
Ediscovery and Data Security
Mitigating risk is important to legal professionals regardless of their role or area of expertise. Many investigations involve sensitive data and serious allegations, all of…
What Do 2020’s Tech Trends Mean for Ediscovery
While some of these new technologies may not have a great impact on the ediscovery world, others pose interesting questions.
What Happens With the Data Collected by Doorbell Cameras?
As ediscovery professionals, doorbell cameras—and the footage they generate—raise interesting questions. What risks are we subjecting ourselves and our organizations to when we create data?
Court sanctions defendant for ‘bollixed’ legal hold
In this employment discrimination case, the defendant “bollixed its litigation hold…to a staggering degree and at every turn.” As a sanction, the magistrate recommended that…
Litigant’s attempt to ‘take advantage of’ evidence it spoliated proves its bad faith
Decker v. Target Corp. In this personal injury claim, the court granted harsh sanctions for the defendant’s bad faith spoliation of evidence.This case began with…
Medical Records Proportional Ediscovery In ADA Claim
The plaintiff argued his medical records weren’t relevant; the court held that he “placed his mental condition at issue” by asserting an ADA claim.
Defendant’s failure to produce discovery ‘no one’s fault but its own’
The court precluded the defendant’s non-disclosed evidence, granting summary judgment for the plaintiff, as the failure to disclose was in bad faith.
Court finds forensic inspection relevant and proportional
In this alleged click-fraud case, the court concluded that a forensic inspection of the defendant’s devices was proportional to the needs of the case.
Plaintiff displays ‘flagrant disregard’ for court’s orders and discovery process
On appeal, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed, finding that the plaintiff’s failure to provide discovery justified the “last resort” sanction of dismissal.