Ride the Lightning

Feb 19, 2008

BALLING AND GETTING HIGH: EVIDENCE ON MYSPACE

It’s one thing to make a fool of yourself in public, but some folks seem to excel at stupidity in

Feb 15, 2008

BRITS HIRE “HOTTIE” PIS TO TEST SPOUSE FIDELITY

Imagine this. You are a married businessman on your way home from work. As is your innocent custom, you stop

Feb 13, 2008

POCKET GUIDE TO ESI FOR FEDERAL JUDGES URGES PROACTIVITY

In January 2008, the Federal Judicial Center published Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges.  The primary

Feb 11, 2008

JUDGE: NO GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARDS

From the Sensei case files: What a difference a judge makes. After many weeks of poison pen letters exchanged between

Feb 08, 2008

EDRM: DOES THE EMPEROR HAVE NO CLOTHES?

One of my favorite blogs is Infogovernance http://infogovernance.blogspot.com by blogger Rob Robinson. One of his recent posts struck me as

Feb 07, 2008

MURDER MOST WIRED: SEX AND DEATH IN ITALY

Hello from sunny L.A. and the ABA Midyear meeting, a long and bumpy plane ride from Virginia. I detest planes

Feb 05, 2008

POSTSCRIPT TO THE WHOOPS-A-DAISY DEFENSE STORY

Apparently, O’Melveny and Myers is really getting into the electronic evidence world in a big way, and generating a lot

Feb 01, 2008

THE WHOOPS-A-DAISY DEFENSE: O’MELVENY APOLOGIZES FOR MISSING E-MAILS

For a while the attorneys at O’Melveny & Myers must have been cheerfully singing “We’re in the Money.” They charged

Jan 30, 2008

WHEN LOGIC AND PROPORTION HAVE FALLEN SLOPPY DEAD: JUDGE REFUSES TO QUALIFY CERTIFIED FORENSIC EXAMINER BECAUSE HE HAS A BIOCHEMISTRY DEGREE

If you go into enough courtrooms, you’ll see it all. You’ll watch an irate judge order a bailiff to bring

Jan 28, 2008

AUTHOR! AUTHOR! RALPH LOSEY ON ED

I was pleased to see an announcement today that the American Bar Association has published e-Discovery: Current Trends and Cases

Jan 25, 2008

THE STATE OF THE STATES: A FLURRY OF ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY RULES

As if the new federal rules themselves were not enough to get a handle on, there are now at least

Jan 23, 2008

GOOD NEWS, EH? SEDONA CANADA PRINCIPLES FOR ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY PUBLISHED

On January 21st, the Sedona Canada E-discovery Principles were posted in English on the Canadian E-discovery Portal, which is hosted