30 July 2011 — As we had reported in a previous post, the world’s first e-discovery malpractice lawsuit was filed in State Court in California against McDermott Will & Emery.  The case has been rocketing around the internet, striking fear in the heart of the e-discovery community.  The case involves a privilege filter through which [...]

18 May 2010 — Ralph Losey has designed and created an online class for law school on the subject of electronic discovery. It is a three-credit course, entirely online, named Introduction to Electronic Discovery.  The students can take this course from anywhere, and can do so asynchronously. At present, the course is offered by the University of Florida, [...]

4 May 2010 —  Very often Posse List members get so caught up in the nuts & bolts of e-discovery they don’t get an overall perspective of the trends of e-discovery and litigation.  How important is e-discovery to the litigation process?  Is extensive e-discovery threatened just to lead to settlement in order to avoid discovery [...]

There has been an interesting conversation going on about the recommended path for an experienced e-discovery attorney to transition from law practice into a more technical litigation support or e-discovery consultant/project manager role.  It has been a discussion thread on the e-LEGAL group on LinkedIn and Paul Easton has a post about it this past [...]

Updated March 20, 2010 from our original March 13, 2010 post Last week saw the release of the 2,200-page report by Anton Valukas on the Lehman Brothers collapse.  Valukas was appointed examiner by the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee probing the reasons for Lehman’s failure in September 2008. Note: Examiners in bankruptcy cases are appointed to investigate accusations of [...]

As more and more attorneys, law firms, corporations and vendors join the Posse List and exisiting Posse List members move into the nuts and bolts of the tech side of e-discovery, we thought we’d update our e-discovery “primer” posts.  In an e-discovery review, the collections process and its attendant considerations are paramount.  But just what, exactly, [...]

As recently highlighted by Sharon Nelson on her excellent blog Ride the Lightening one of the things Craig Ball most enjoys is coming up with a challenging e-discovery hypothetical and then confounding some of his fellow luminaries in the EDD world.  For Sharon’s full post click here. The Edna challenge involves an old school chum who [...]

The January issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology has an article by Herb Roitblat, Anne Kershaw, and Patrick Oot describing a study that compared computer classification of e-discovery documents with manual review.  It found that computer classification was at least as consistent as human review was at distinguishing responsive [...]

Last week we posted an article by Robert Owen, a partner with Fulbright & Jaworski.   He is head of the New York location’s litigation group, as well as co-head of the firm’s E-Discovery and Information Management practice group.  Owen is part of the core team that conceived of and has administered Fulbright’s Annual Litigation Trends Survey [...]

  Ralph Losey has produced a six minute video from the last day of his class on e-discovery at the University of Florida. Holland & Knight’s William Hamilton and Ralph serve as adjunct professors at the College of Law to try to pass on what they know about the subject to the next generation.   According [...]