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In Dartnell Enterprises, Inc. v Hewlett-Packard Co., the Defendant Hewlett-Packard (HP) was ordered to produce responsive documents in their native electronic format despite its production of hard copies of those documents. The underlying action involved a business relationship between Dartnell and HP. Plaintiff Dartnell alleged that HP had engaged in bad faith and tortuously interfered with […]
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All document review projects employ document review topic codes. Contract attorneys must apply topic codes to the documents to identify helpful, harmful or privileged documents. My experience has shown that you will be better off keeping the coding form very simple. There are several reasons for this: To many topic choices can slow down the […]
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An emerging issue in the business of eD is the use contract review teams by law firms for large projects, and the need for lawyers to supervise those teams to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of privileged information. Quite frankly, the standards for that supervision has been imprecise. This issue has increased in notoriety due to […]
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A recent eDiscovery Errors Survey reveals that technology has not solved the challenges posed by electronically stored information (ESI). In fact, technology is at the base of most of the mistakes that are made. Lawyers and litigation support professionals were the subject of the survey to identify areas where their organizations experienced the most pain in terms of […]
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Underneath the cloud, at the base of any electronic discovery project, are contract attorneys. Hopefully, they have been trained and armed with solid, objective criteria to make decisions regarding what is privileged. If they have not, J-M Manufacturing Company, Inc v. McDermott Will & Emery makes it clear that law firms and their vendors will be sued for […]
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