Law Sites

MARCH 24, 2025

eDiscovery Assistant Rebrands as Minerva26: A New Era of Strategic Discovery Begins The trusted legal research platform evolves into a strategic command center for discovery, equipping litigators with foresight, clarity, and control over ESI.

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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

E-discovery company Exterro today announced the forthcoming launch of a remote mobile device collection capability that aims to streamline the process of gathering mobile data for e-discovery and digital forensics investigations.

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Law Sites

APRIL 10, 2024

The e-discovery company CS Disco today announced that its board of directors has named Eric Friedrichsen as president and chief executive officer, filling the slot vacated when the company’s cofounder Kiwi Camara stepped down as CEO last September in the wake of allegations that he had groped a female employee.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 29, 2021

The post Lawyers, Implicit Bias and Burnout: 5 Steps to Self-Discovery appeared first on Attorney at Work. Until then, in many ways, you are controlled by these biases. Change is possible. Finding your implicit biases is the key.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 22, 2025

15, 2025), the court ordered discovery of litigation hold notices. In my opinion, and while I agree with the result, the legal issues governing the discovery of litigation hold notices and implementation need clarity and national uniformity. In Another Approach to Drafting and Discovery of Litigation Hold Notices (Feb.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 6, 2025

3, 2025) (per curiam), the intermediate appellate court affirmed a dismissal with prejudice in consolidated cases due to discovery violations. Defendants motion to compel discovery was granted on March 28, 2024. The trial court dismissed the case, and this appeal followed. cleaned up; citation omitted).

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E-Discovery LLC

JULY 23, 2024

15, 2024), the court “allowed [defendants] Hillrom to take limited discovery about when [plaintiff] Linet’s duty to preserve may have arisen….” In short, the court authorized discovery of privilege-log-type information, such as when plaintiff communicated with counsel prior to suit and the general subject-matter of those communications.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 20, 2025

The Court outlined a process to resolve discovery issues, and wrote that [t]he goal is to attempt to quantify a workable discovery budget that is proportional to what is at issue in the case. Initially, during a hearing, the Court raised concerns about the breadth of plaintiffs discovery requests and the nature of defense objections.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 3, 2025

31, 2025), the court denied defendants request to stay discovery pending a ruling on defendants motion to dismiss the complaint. In denying the request to stay discovery, the Hernandez court first noted that it had wide discretion in controlling discovery. The stay was presented by plaintiffs motion to compel.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Among them were: general principles of discovery; the role of counsel in self-collection; discovery on discovery; the date that the litigation hold was triggered; whether reasonable post-trigger steps were taken; curative sanctions under Fed.R.Civ.P. It insists that it is not conducting unchecked discovery.” See The Hon.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In response to the Taylor plaintiffs, Google challenged unreasonably broad demands for discovery on discovery, [that] are unsupported by any showing that relevant evidence is missing or that Googles production is deficient or otherwise improper. In my opinion, that omission was dispositive almost by itself. at *2 (cleaned up); cf.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

9, 2024), provides a succinct summary of the scope of discovery under the December 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Information within this scope of discovery need not be admissible in evidence to be discoverable.” It – surprisingly – sustained boilerplate objections. The case involved a loan gone south.

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 2, 2025

Rolling discovery was not permitted: In August 2024, the Magistrate Judge decided that continuous rolling discovery after April or September 2023 would be unduly burdensome based on Defendants representations about it. Rolling discovery differs from rolling production. 26(e) duty to supplement and rolling discovery.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

District Court for the District of Maryland as the “ESI Discovery Supervisor” in a complex commercial case, with the task of “oversee[ing] the negotiation of an ESI protocol.” Then, the process led to the filing of a “Stipulated ESI Protocol and Discovery Plan.” Discovery Plan” (Jan. It was an honor to be appointed by the U.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 10, 2025

The Sedona Conference has posted its Commentary on Discovery of Collaboration Platforms Data, Public Comment Version (Apr. 26(b)(1) states that [i]nformation within this scope of discovery need not be admissible in evidence to be discoverable, discoverable material that does not meet evidentiary standards may be of little or limited value.

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E-Discovery LLC

JULY 9, 2024

I have come across cases in which a Court’s law clerk conducted an informal conference with parties to resolve a discovery dispute. June 26, 2024), counsel “ participated in an informal discovery conference with the undersigned’s Judicial Law Clerk regarding the dispute. ” [emphasis added]. For example, in Hipschman v.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 16, 2024

26, 2024)(unreported), dismissals for discovery violations were affirmed. Nguh, one owner, propounded discovery on Mr. Etame, the opposing owner. The Appellate Court wrote: Mr. Etame failed to respond to discovery, and on March 3, 2022, Ms. Nguh’s discovery requests, including requests for his address and phone number.

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E-Discovery LLC

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

7, 2025), the court addressed a number of discovery disputes in this lawsuit by a terminated employee against her former employer. This blog was initially posted on Electronic Discovery Reference Model. Merck & Co., 2025 WL 429013 (N.D. The court permitted spoliation interrogatories.

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 13, 2025

Defendants moved to stay all discovery deadlines pending a resolution of their motion to compel arbitration and for a stay pending arbitration. The motion to stay discovery was granted. The Court wrote that: It is axiomatic that district courts enjoy substantial discretion in managing discovery. 10, 2025)(Austin, J.),

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E-Discovery LLC

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As to one document, the Courts review of the substance of each of the redacted paragraphs makes clear that the letter involves the application of legal principles relevant to discovery and evidence preservation to guide the future conduct of Defendants. DISCOVERY OF LITIGATION HOLD NOTICES HAS LONG BEEN AN ISSUE. Grimm (ret.)

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Law Sites

AUGUST 7, 2024

For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections.

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 4, 2025

17, 2024), the court rejected a demand that opposing counsel state under oath that counsel had properly conducted discovery. 26(g) (the stop and think rule regarding discovery) or Rule 37(a)(4) (evasive and incomplete discovery responses) to, or instead of, Rule 11. Trivest Partners L.P., 2024 WL 514015 (E.D. 6, 2024).

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E-Discovery LLC

JULY 3, 2024

June 28, 2024)(unreported), the intermediate appellate court affirmed a discovery sanction in a divorce action. Mrs. Ferko alleged that Mr. Ferko’s discovery responses were inadequate on the issue of marital property. Ferko then filed two more motions to compel asserting that the discovery responses were deficient.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 19, 2025

Thompson I explained the 2000 change in the scope of discovery that remains in force, with some changes, today. [1] Thompson I explained the 2000 change in the scope of discovery that remains in force, with some changes, today. [1] 2001)( Thompson I ), was a class action by Baltimore public housing residents. Emphasis added].

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E-Discovery LLC

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

7, 2025), the court addressed a number of discovery disputes in a lawsuit by a terminated employee against her former employer. A second interesting aspect of Li is that the court permitted discovery relating to spoliation. What if the lawyer simply said, even though I have not been retained, I think you have a duty to preserve?

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it came to discovery, it wasn’t. RFP 1: “NO SUCH DOCUMENTS EXIST” Generally, when an attorney signs a discovery response under Fed.R.Civ.P. Discovery is the Lawyer’s X-Ray; However, an MRI May Not Be Reasonable (Sep. Discovery is the Lawyer’s X-Ray; However, an MRI May Not Be Reasonable (Sep. Lain’s entity.

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 16, 2025

10, 2025), the issue was whether an electronic discovery services vendor, DFC, could compel its former client to arbitrate a breach of contract claim. They alleged that they had hired DFC to perform electronic discovery services. The Supreme Court of Alabama held that arbitration was compelled. Plaintiffs sued DFC.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The court described the request as rolling discovery. You may guess the result from the following statement by the court: This is not the first time the Court has admonished the parties for seeking second and third bites at discovery cherries in this case. Rolling discovery differs. The court had made two prior rulings.

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Law Sites

MARCH 4, 2024

One of the challenges of e-discovery for smaller law firms is that so many of the e-discovery products on the market are designed for large cases handled by large law firms, putting them out of range for smaller firms in both price and complexity. You can buy the book on Amazon for $34.99.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

29, 2024), rejected “oceanic” discovery requests, while permitting reasonable ones. The court wrote: “Not surprisingly, discovery in this case, like ‘the course of true love, [has been anything but] smooth.’ The court wrote: “Not surprisingly, discovery in this case, like ‘the course of true love, [has been anything but] smooth.’

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 3, 2025

The Sterling court wrote that this court certainly does not want to issue rulings that encourage parties to file hair-trigger discovery disputes. 26, 2024)(serving party should not run to court); Discovery on Discovery (Apr. 26, 2024)(serving party should not run to court); Discovery on Discovery (Apr.

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E-Discovery LLC

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

THE DISCOVERY VIOLATION AND COURT ORDER Minh propounded discovery on Kelly. First, any sanction must be just; second, the sanction must be specifically related to the particular claim which was at issue in the order to provide discovery. Kelly Hoang Law Firm v. Hoang , 2023 WL 3150110 (C.D. 14, 2023). cleaned up).

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Law Sites

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Recently, the Everlaw Summit, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, convened in San Francisco. I was […]

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Complex Discovery

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Editor’s Note: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the pharmaceutical industry, offering unprecedented opportunities to accelerate drug discovery, streamline clinical trials, and fortify intellectual property (IP) strategies.

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E-Discovery LLC

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Despite several extensions of time, the defendant essentially told the court that it had been too busy to respond to discovery. Plaintiff Orlando sought discovery from defendant HKS. All objections to the discovery at issue, other than privilege, have been waived by the failure to timely respond to the discovery.”

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 5, 2025

In previous blogs, I addressed decisions holding that Where Requests for Discovery were Overly Broad, No Privilege Log was Required (Oct. 12, 2024); No Privilege Log Is Needed While Scope of Discovery Objections Are Pending (Aug. Baltimore Police Dept., 2025 WL 509130 (D. 24, 2024). See generally Fed.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Because the discovery requests were so “overly broad,” the court held that no privilege log was required on the overbroad requests. July 17, 2024), the court held that no privilege log was required until scope of discovery objections were resolved. See No Privilege Log Is Needed While Scope of Discovery Objections Are Pending (Aug.

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