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Li. v. Merck Addresses: Trigger; Spoliation Discovery; and, Document Unitization

E-Discovery LLC

7, 2025), the court addressed a number of discovery disputes in a lawsuit by a terminated employee against her former employer. In the first blog, I suggest that the Li court considered a subjective factor in an objective test. A second interesting aspect of Li is that the court permitted discovery relating to spoliation.

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What Judges are really saying about Technology Assisted Review

Discovery Advocate

Since the first judicial opinion endorsing the use of Technology Assisted Review (or TAR) was written by Judge Andrew J. And just as courts would not prescribe the use of TAR, neither would courts hold that a party could not use it, even in the face of party objections.

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Amendments to CR 26 and 30 Will Change Discovery and Deposition Practice

WA Bar News

1 The amendments to CR 26 affect objections, supplementation, and disclosure of experts. 1 The amendments to CR 26 affect objections, supplementation, and disclosure of experts. They will require a material change in the way many attorneys practice discovery. Illustration © Getty/benjamin lourenço BY DAN BRIDGES On Sept.

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Shadow IT: A Serious Threat to Law Firms

Attorney at Work

Sometimes, an IT department moves slower than the average tortoise or routinely raises objections to what employees want. Sometimes those outside the IT department are pretty sharp technologically — and running shadow IT operations doesn’t intimidate them. Can’t You Control Shadow IT by Policies or Technology?

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Requesting Parties Are Denied “Input” Into Producing Party’s Search Terms

E-Discovery LLC

Sedona Principle 6 is: Responding parties are best situated to evaluate the procedures, methodologies, and technologies appropriate for preserving and producing their own electronically stored information. His Honor added: Of course, the best solution in the entire area of electronic discovery is cooperation among counsel.

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Project Management Tools for Attorneys

Attorney at Work

Offering a legal service is, of course, quite different from developing a new disinfectant, or building a software application or a material object. One column might be dedicated to deadlines, another to discovery tasks, another to trial preparation. Still, it is important to take stock of the demand for new legal technologies.

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Five Key Points from the Invasion of Privacy Lawsuit Against OpenAI

IP Watchdog

While the Plaintiffs acknowledge in their complaint that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to create life-saving technologies and herald discoveries that could improve our daily lives, they claim OpenAI crossed the line of using altruistic means of reaching its objective when it abruptly restructured itself into a for-profit business.