Updated from our original March 13, 2010 post
Friday 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 wrongdoing or misconduct. Their job is [...]

On Thursday, March 11th, at 1:00pm Catalyst is sponsoring a webinar discussion exploring recent e-discovery trends regarding privileged documents, including the Facciola-Redgrave protocol for privilege analysis and best practices for creating privilege logs.
This presentation will include:
* Analysis of key aspects of the Facciola-Redgrave Framework for avoiding a document-by-document privilege review. 
* Assessment of ways to integrate enhanced [...]

                      
The Morgan Lewis eData team and Recommind are sponsoring what looks to be a very informative live seminar on March 18th (next Thursday) at 4:00pm in the New York offices of Morgan Lewis.   The seminar will focus on successfully leveraging technology to improve early case assessment (ECA), preservation, collection, and document review.
For the Morgan Lewis team:  Stephanie “Tess” Blair and [...]

 
As we reported yesterday (along with 8 gazillion other media reports) ABC News had reported a few weeks ago that a former Toyota product liability lawyer had accused Toyota of hiding information in product liability suits.  The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed his documents and found that they showed Toyota hid internal data recording Toyota testing data, [...]

In our series “Data! Data! Data!” – Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”  we have been interviewing thought leaders in the ESI management and e-discovery universe who can help us navigate through “the perfect storm”:  ever increasing data volumes; more litigation and government inquiries, and skyrocketing e-discovery costs.  That series will continue next week for several [...]

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, [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series  click here.

Virginia P. Henschel, Esq. is Vice President of E-Discovery Affairs for Applied Discovery and in this role, she works with law firms, government organizations, corporations and industry leaders to educate [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series  click here.
As we have indicated in numerous posts, if we are to believe the prognosis of many economists, the current recession is on the verge of ending.  The rebounding economy will [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series  click here.

Merrill Corporation has a wide reach.  It is one of the largest world-wide vendors for outsourced services in business communication and information management.  Merrill’s services include document and data management, [...]

 
In the latter part of the last decade — ok, the fall of 2009 — we completed what we call the trifecta:  full coverage of three of the premier electronically stored information (ESI) and e-discovery events for the litigation industry:  The Masters Conference (click here), the ACC Annual Meeting (click here), and the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery [...]