Monday, April 16, 2007

New ediscovery guide for judges

The Federal Judicial Center has released a new pocket guidge for judges when handling ediscovery. Compared to most legal documents, this guide is quite brief, direct, and manageable. It is written in "plain English" rather than legalese so it fulfills a purpose of explaining ediscovery to a much wider audience. Also, this is great insight for litigators and ediscovery vendors, service providers, and practitioners to better understand what the judges are using to approach electronic discovery.


Title:
Managing discovery of electronic information : a pocket guide for judges / Barbara J. Rothstein, Ronald J. Hedges, and Elizabeth C. Wiggins

http://antpac.uci.edu/record=b3491038

Friday, April 13, 2007

Rove's emails missing

Without getting too political, what is the actual likeliness of this story.

Click here for article

It is hard to imagine that these emails are really missing, but if they are, what is going on at the White House?

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Osterman Research Blog

I have always been a fan of the products put out by Michael Osterman and his crew of researchers. They focus heavily on the messaging industry and I discovered today that they have started a blog. Welcome Michael and team!

Click the link in the sidebar to see the blog.

On research in general, if someone happens to desire to share some research or post something relevant on the Messaging Mogul blog, I would be more than happy to read it, discuss it, and post it at your request and approval.

It seems this industry jumped up pretty quickly and is expanding rapidly. At first archiving was available in the same form for any company or industry that wanted it. Now with Compliance, Ediscovery, Supervision, Security, and Storage Management all major factors in an archiving discussion, some companies have more of a need for one piece than another. I would imagine that messaging companies will begin to narrow their focus to a particular industry or size of company and will need to focus their solution more intensely. Any thoughts? We'll see.