Ride the Lightning

Jul 16, 2009

HOW E-DISCOVERY IGNORANCE CAN AFFECT YOUR BOTTOM LINE

You can always trust Craig Ball to be on point and pithy. His latest post, about a hapless EDD rookie

Jul 15, 2009

GOOGLE TO THE (E-DISCOVERY) RESCUE?

My thanks to Alan Goldberg for suggesting that I note a recent blog post from E-Discovery Bytes dealing with the

Jul 13, 2009

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? COMPUTER FORENSICS AND THE MELENDEZ-DIAZ CASE

There has been a lot of chatter on the airwaves about the June 25th decision of the U.S. Supreme Court

Jul 09, 2009

AUTHENTICATING ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE: TEXT MESSAGES AND E-MAILS

I read with interest Josh Gilliland's recent post on the admissibilty of text messages in State v. Loye, 2009 Minn.

Jul 01, 2009

DIVORCE ATTORNEYS SUED OVER E-MAILS GLEANED FROM SPYWARE

I've been waiting for this case. It was just inevitable that attorneys (as opposed to spouses) would one day be

Jun 30, 2009

THE RIAA VERDICT: DID THE JURY SMELL A WEASEL?

By now, everyone has heard about the Jamie Thomas-Rasset case, in which the jury awarded the RIAA nearly $2 million

Jun 25, 2009

GOVERNOR SANFORD'S E-MAIL: WHY DO FOLKS DO THIS TO THEMSELVES?

You would think people would get it by now. Don't e-mail anything you don't want to see in the New

Jun 24, 2009

ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE IN EVERYDAY CASES: ESI BYTES PODCAST

Yesterday, John and I had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Karl Schieneman of JurInnov, Ltd. Karl has been

Jun 23, 2009

WEST VIRGINIA ISSUES METADATA OPINION

On June 10th, the West Virginia Lawyer Disciplinary Board issued an opinion on metadata entitled, What is Metadata and Why

Jun 22, 2009

EXCELLENT E-BOOK ON MEET AND CONFER AVAILABLE

I am always (and usually with good cause) skeptical of vendor publications. But the recent "Considering Meet and Confer" issued

Jun 19, 2009

LAWYER E-FILING GOOFS HAVE CATASTROPHIC RESULTS

A recent Law.com article warned lawyers to be wary of the appellate pitfalls of e-filing. In one case, the law

Jun 17, 2009

SECURELY LOCKING DOWN PDFS REDUX

Last week, I posted advice from John about how to securely lock down a PDF document. It was good advice. Except