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The Federal “Official Information” Privilege

E-Discovery LLC

Plaintiffs moved to compel production of documents after an in-person meet and confer to attempt resolution, and after counsel “ participated in an informal discovery conference with the undersigned’s Judicial Law Clerk regarding the dispute. ” Therefore, it overruled the objection. at *1 (emphasis added). citation omitted). [2]

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Do You Really Need to Ask for Metadata?

Joshua Gilliland

The Court held it would be unduly burdensome for the Producing Party to produce the ESI with metadata after originally producing the discovery as paper. Review applications use the metadata to populate the database of “objective coding,” the information gleamed from the four corners of a document. AutomationDirect.com, Inc.,

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Employer Erred by Downloading Former Employee’s Personal Email; But, Failure to Preserve it Was Not Spoliation; and, There Was a Gap in Employee Handbook Clause Permitting Employer Access Post-Termination

E-Discovery LLC

Based on these facts, an affidavit from IT Director Mr. Hughey, and an investigation by a technology consultant, Mr. Shapiro alleged that each of the individual defendants (and thus HHI, since they were acting in their official capacities) had accessed his emails unlawfully. 4, 2024), quoting Khan v.

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LegalWeek 2024 Special Part Two: Mollie Nichols and Mark Noel from Redgrave Data

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

A lot of what you see at legal week is you see the shiny objects. And so they like the message that we’re not trying to sell them a shiny object, something new to bring in to be that sort of silver bullet. And many times that’s in the discovery space. So that we can actually perhaps bring a little different message.