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RTL Posts Featured in CloudNine E-Discovery Blog

January 24, 2019

On January 18, Doug Austin of CloudNine featured two Ride the Lightning (RTL) blog posts about Paul Manafort and the redaction mishap in his own post. His blog post, “It’s 2019, So it Must Be Time for Another Redaction Flub: eDiscovery Best Practices” is featured in CloudNine’s eDiscovery Daily Blog. CloudNine is a legal intelligence technology company with deep expertise in the analysis, processing, and review of electronically stored information (ESI). Ride the Lightning is an electronic evidence and cybersecurity blog by Sensei’s Sharon Nelson.

Excerpt: I should probably put in a disclaimer that this is not a political post – I would write about this regarding which political party this involved.  It just so happens that the latest high-profile redaction flub happens to be tied to the Russia investigation and Paul Manafort.  Regardless, it leaves me asking the question: when will they ever learn?

As covered on Sharon Nelson’s terrific Ride the Lightning blog (here and here), defense lawyers for Paul Manafort used court papers that were made public last week to say that prosecutors were overblowing a text message exchange cited as proof that Manafort tried to mislead investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.  Unfortunately for them, that portion of the filing that had been submitted under seal was improperly redacted in the public version, allowing the text to be lifted from the document with a few keystrokes. Oops.

Read the entire post here.