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
Showing posts with label federal rules of civil procedure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal rules of civil procedure. Show all posts
Monday, April 16, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
More Messaging Management Moguls
Thanks to Roger Matus of Death by Email for reaching out and for the shoutout today.
I am looking forward to hearing more from writers/bloggers/podcasters etc. in the messaging space. This space is getting more and more attention in organization since the email and instant message have become so vital in legal proceedings and compliance violations.
This is a major reason why I enjoyed learning about Roger's company, Inboxer. They are in the search, supervision, and surveillance space in the messaging industry which I think is the prime place to be these days. Of course employees need to be able to search their old emails for information in a way that is fast and efficient, but lawyers and compliance officers are under a big green dollar-sign shaped gun that comes in the form of a regulatory or litigation request and not only do they need a quick response tool, they need the promise that the right information is in their response and the wrong information is out; that they are not providing more information than they must; and that they can explain the relevance of what they do provide.
Any time spent developing products in this space is time well spent in my mind, with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure taking effect, everyone will need to manage their message stores better and everyone will need these products, not just big banks and public multinationals, everyone.
I am looking forward to hearing more from writers/bloggers/podcasters etc. in the messaging space. This space is getting more and more attention in organization since the email and instant message have become so vital in legal proceedings and compliance violations.
This is a major reason why I enjoyed learning about Roger's company, Inboxer. They are in the search, supervision, and surveillance space in the messaging industry which I think is the prime place to be these days. Of course employees need to be able to search their old emails for information in a way that is fast and efficient, but lawyers and compliance officers are under a big green dollar-sign shaped gun that comes in the form of a regulatory or litigation request and not only do they need a quick response tool, they need the promise that the right information is in their response and the wrong information is out; that they are not providing more information than they must; and that they can explain the relevance of what they do provide.
Any time spent developing products in this space is time well spent in my mind, with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure taking effect, everyone will need to manage their message stores better and everyone will need these products, not just big banks and public multinationals, everyone.
Good Email Archiving Article in WSJ
The Wall Street Journal published an article on email archiving in Monday's edition. Nothing groundbreaking, just a quick story about how an inability to produce emails in a timely fashion has burned companies in the past.
The new piece here is the fact that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect at the end of last year which applies strict guidelines to storing and producing all electronic data that is created within an organization. This is a firm encouragement for not just heavily regulated and public companies to manage their information better, but for all companies to archive communications and be able to produce them in the event of a litigation request.
You need a WSJ subscription to read the full text of this article online, if you can't access it, please let me know and I can assist.
Letter of the Law
Email is becoming a big factor in court cases -- so companies are looking for better ways to sort through it when trouble hits
By MICHAEL TOTTY
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117434583190242025.html
The new piece here is the fact that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect at the end of last year which applies strict guidelines to storing and producing all electronic data that is created within an organization. This is a firm encouragement for not just heavily regulated and public companies to manage their information better, but for all companies to archive communications and be able to produce them in the event of a litigation request.
You need a WSJ subscription to read the full text of this article online, if you can't access it, please let me know and I can assist.
Letter of the Law
Email is becoming a big factor in court cases -- so companies are looking for better ways to sort through it when trouble hits
By MICHAEL TOTTY
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117434583190242025.html
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