The Catalyst CR Certified Reviewers program (CRCR) certification program for Catalyst CR which we announced yesterday (see details immediately below) has added an additional session:

                        OCT 6: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

You can sign up for this additional session by clicking here.  The first 3 sessions we announced yesterday filled in 2 hours so Catalyst decided to add another session.  Please register as soon as possible because we expect this one to fill up quickly, too.

Now, in answer to your many, many emails:

1. The sessions above are live sessions being conducted by Catalyst trainers. These are not webcasts/webinars.

2. Catalyst will be setting up webcasts/webinars in the future for the same certification program. We will inform you when they are set-up.

3. However, Catalyst will be rolling out “live” sessions in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and several other cities. We will provide details on these programs in the future.

4. Also, we will be rolling out certification programs for other document review software such as Attenex, Clearwell, iConnect, Relativity, etc. We will provide details on these programs in the future. You can appreciate that the logistics of this enterprise are daunting and we are working diligently in providing this service.

Lastly, the second phase of this effort will include:

1. Webcasts and webinars from vendors such as Orange Legal Technologies so you can understand how the whole process of analytics, processing and review work together. Too many contract attorneys and paralegals enter e-discovery in a vacuum with no training or understanding how all the moving parts fit together.

2. Live seminars and webcasts and webinars from law firms in such areas as the FCPA, principles of attorney-client privilege, the merger process, etc. These are all subjects we encounter on projects yet we have little training on any of these areas.

3. A new page on the Posse List called “Briefing Notes” in which we provide background articles and comments on projects you are probably reviewing, or about to review. We start tomorrow with “Anatomy of a Merger: the Kraft/Cadbury deal”, a look at a deal much in the press; they are about to make a deal, it will be a whopper of an antitrust review and it will be coming (eventually) to a law firm near you. Next week we take a look at a project that many of you in DC are on: the Delta/USAir slot trade deal.

So stay tuned: we have much to tell.

1. Strange Times: EDD $ is down 9% but should spike 30% this year - http://tinyurl.com/TCS9823
2. The Impact of E-Discovery on Arbitration – http://tinyurl.com/n4aqzs
3. ILTA’s Annual Conference-A Not-So-Grimm Fairy Tale: The Conclusion – http://tinyurl.com/nh3gxz
4. The Facebook Era is for Business – http://tinyurl.com/n8oxbb
5. Is Electronic Discovery Wrong? –  http://tinyurl.com/kpcbx9
6. Migrating from Old Applications Is the New Challenge – http://tinyurl.com/nqdtvr
7. Q&A: Should Lawyers Tweet With Clients? –  http://tinyurl.com/m4w29g
8. A growing trend: Social media as legal evidence - http://tinyurl.com/munmz2
9. Free Market having its way with eDiscovery vendors –  http://bit.ly/2zT0mm
10. Mary’s Mack’s “Practical Guide” eBook on e-Discovery” -  http://bit.ly/oGdmO

eDiscovery Vendors News

• Masters Conference Sponsor Update – http://tinyurl.com/kublr8
• Orange Legal Technologies Cites $ Spike – http://tinyurl.com/lwsstb
• O’Melveny and H5 Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Cutting-Edge Model for Document Review – http://tinyurl.com/lrz4ep
• GSA Outlines U.S. Government’s Cloud Computing Requirements – http://tinyurl.com/lzbkdq
• Wave Software and iFramework Formalize Strategic Partnership – http://tinyurl.com/m4ocov
• Dell Gets Into the Digital Forensics Business – http://tinyurl.com/mzuwzt

The Weekly “Top 10 plus …″ e-discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd on Twitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.

1. How To E-Discover Someone In the Age of Twitter http://tinyurl.com/nt3kr8
2. The Intelligence Behind Email Patterns – http://tinyurl.com/kq4gjp
3. The Trouble With Discovery of ESI Abroad – http://tinyurl.com/nsd4z3
4. A Closer Look at California E-Discovery Law – http://is.gd/1HNtk
5. Four Steps to Reducing the Cost of Compliance – http://tinyurl.com/lf42nd
6. Software that spots hidden networks – Electronic ties that bind – http://tinyurl.com/kwww8z
7. How to Reduce Electronic Discovery Costs Part II: Document Retention Policies and Information Management – http://tinyurl.com/mce3yq
8. How to Reduce Electronic Discovery Costs Part III: Early Case Assessment – http://tinyurl.com/lkoemk
9. The Critical Role of Preservation in Electronic Discovery – ESIBytes Podcast with David Ries http://www.esibytes.com/?p=228
10. Analysis of the Legality of Downloading in Canada http://is.gd/1jNEt
11. Comparing Comprehensive Solutions vs. Best of Breed – http://tinyurl.com/n2xdtb

The Weekly “Top 10 plus …″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd on Twitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.

1. Back Off Metadata Ethics Complaint, Judge Tells Lawyer Suing Sexploits Blogger – http://tinyurl.com/mpa6du 
2. Digital Britain Report- vision for ensuring that the UK is at the leading edge of the global digital economy – http://tinyurl.com/mg3o6b  
3. Companies hosting third-party content beware: promises can get you in trouble – http://tinyurl.com/nopvkf  
4. Big Brains at Big Blue Make Legal Tech Work http://bit.ly/ufXvt  
5. Are Lawyers Competent to Construct Keyword Searches? http://tinyurl.com/nwbgo8  
6. The Plumbing of a Motion to Compel – http://tinyurl.com/mojzn8  
7. Untimely objections doom motions to compel – http://tinyurl.com/np9zy6  
8. Law Firms Threatened by Fat Chameleons – http://tinyurl.com/ld4fgd  
9. Getting Started – The Biggest Challenge to eDiscovery – http://tinyurl.com/mf2c2t  
10. Fact-Based, not Faith-Based, Confidence Needed When Implementing eDiscovery Processes – http://tinyurl.com/kkrdd5
11. Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet – http://tinyurl.com/nxjmoa  
12. Now You See It…Now You Don’t…Well, Maybe You Actually Never Saw All Of It. http://tinyurl.com/nfm42x
13. Court Costs: $1,000,000 in Translation Costs Awarded to Prevailing Party – http://tinyurl.com/mcq8ux
14. Accelerating Review in an Imperfect World: Part – http://tinyurl.com/mwkowx
15. Legal TREC: An In-depth Examination of Text Retrieval – http://tinyurl.com/lkuecy

The Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd on Twitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.

1. Get Active in Preserving, Retrieving ESI – http://tinyurl.com/oamreb
2. British Standard on data protection is published – http://tinyurl.com/qmdhbj 
3. E-discovery policy goes beyond ordinary storage – http://tinyurl.com/q4t5yb
4. Unfiltered Orange and Communicating with the Industry via Ari Kaplan/Law.com Legal Technology Blog – http://tinyurl.com/pd6qsa
5. The 2009 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide: Critical Decisions Made Simple. http://tinyurl.com/kvc526
6. Are You Ready for the New Federal Litigation Time Computation Rules? http://tinyurl.com/kkleyx
7. EDD STAFFING: The Jobs Project By George Socha & Tom Gelbmann http://tinyurl.com/ngtf9g
8. The Management of Large Case Document Review http://tinyurl.com/lxm6rx
9. Reducing The Cost/Duration Of Litigation – Comments On Final Report Of The American College Of Trial Lawyers Task Force http://tinyurl.com/lclaa2
10. Effects Of The Current Economic Downturn On U.S. Law Departments – http://tinyurl.com/mcmdbs
11. The Top 5 eDiscovery Best Practices Used by Corporations and Law Firms http://tinyurl.com/lfgfzn
12. eDiscovery 101 – Controlling the Cascading Costs http://tinyurl.com/mg37ws
13. The Practical Application of Federal Rule 26(f) – Meet and Confer http://tinyurl.com/ksjvph
14. LegalTech West Coast Sessions to Focus on Emerging Social Media Tools, and Adapting to Turbulent Economy – http://tinyurl.com/nkfba5
15. The Content/Envelope Distinction in Internet Law – William & Mary Law Review – http://tinyurl.com/mgvp2k

The Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd on Twitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.  

1. Surveys Indicate Information Is Top Business Priority, Yet Organizations Struggle to Meet E-discovery Requirements- http://tinyurl.com/qn3sxw 
2. Document Automation Still a Strong Requirement in a Down Economy – http://tinyurl.com/ps92e2
3. LawyersWeekly: Infrastructure injection a revenue relief for law firms http://tinyurl.com/o2mv5s
4. Confused about your eDiscovery Project? A Primer on the Legal Discovery Tech Landscape – IDC Presentation http://twitdoc.com/c/2bbp8z
5. New EU Directive May Go Too Far in Electronic Surveillance – http://tinyurl.com/ospu4h
6. Producing Social Networking Profiles: What Court has Jurisdiction? http://tinyurl.com/odra3j
7. Privilege in an electronic world: cost vs. safety – http://tinyurl.com/re2o94
8. Fed Courts of Appeal uphold obstruction charges for false docs created pre-investigation and “irrelevant” – http://tinyurl.com/peqp5y
9. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Drives Increased Electronic Discovery Overseas – http://tinyurl.com/crmlxt
10. Study Projects Growth in Corporate Legal Spending – http://tinyurl.com/qe2dbu
11. How cloud services impact e-discovery http://tinyurl.com/cnuyuv

The Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd on Twitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.  

1. Keyword searching for e-disclosure documents is not like using Google – http://tinyurl.com/d4ceyf
2. E-Discovery on the Cheap – http://tinyurl.com/dks95g
3. Twitter and e-Discovery by Debra Logan/Gartner – http://digg.com/u11xWQ
4. E-Discovery Update: E-Discovery in the $50,000 Case – http://tinyurl.com/cg2mof
5. Updated: State Rules of Civil Procedure for eDiscovery including color-coded map. http://fiosinc.com/t/90424
6. The age of e-discovery:  lawyers face daunting challenges in sifting through mountains of e-documents – http://tinyurl.com/d3xngk
7. Finally Some Limitations on E-Discovery? –  http://tinyurl.com/dzuopt
8. Are Your Tweets, TXTs and IMs Discoverable in Litigation? –  http://tinyurl.com/ckhu8s
9. The False Economy Of In-House ESI Processing – http://tinyurl.com/d5sm6k
10. Utah Woman Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Texting in Court – http://tinyurl.com/dghvug

The Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd on Twitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.  

 This week’s “”Top 10″ electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies:

1.  Can Lawyers Use Clients’ E-Discoveries? http://tinyurl.com/ck28dz 
2.  Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions where Critical Evidence Destroyed http://tinyurl.com/dfdsr9
3.  Mixing International Arbitration With U.S. Discovery  http://tinyurl.com/c46829 
4.  How Far Is Too Far in E-Discovery?  http://tinyurl.com/d9mde2  
5.  Data Mine Is Latest Tool In Spam Arms Race   http://tinyurl.com/dnb5lw 
6.  Storing EU Customer Data in the U.S. is Legal  http://tinyurl.com/ckpd3o 
7.  SaaS Makes a Big Splash at the 2009 ABA http://tinyurl.com/cro46x 
8.  How E-Discovery Has Helped Legitimize Contract Work – http://tinyurl.com/cm5nro
9.  Will Microblogging Replace Email? http://tinyurl.com/dkgur7  
10. How Virtualization Affects EDD Collection – http://tinyurl.com/csh8uz

The Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd on Twitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.

1. Required eDiscovery Reading for Attorneys – http://tinyurl.com/da4bwc

2. Reducing the Costs of Privilege Reviews and Logs — http://tinyurl.com/dmv7cy

3. Is a Hosted Review Model Right for You? — http://tinyurl.com/cr79bk

4.  Report finds nearly twice as many subprime-related lawsuits filed in 2008 as 2007 — http://tinyurl.com/chewvc

5. Electronic Discovery and Facebook — http://twurl.nl/numy54

6.  ”Wake-Up Call” on Need for Careful Deliberation/Cooperation in Search Terms — http://tinyurl.com/ct8xen

7.  Meet and Confer Quick Reference — http://tinyurl.com/cwsrul

8.  The Challenge for Financial Regulation — http://tinyurl.com/dhbltr

9. E-discovery gets an F — http://tinyurl.com/c8cybq

10. Estimating eDiscovery Costs? Online Tools for eDiscovery Planning — http://snurl.com/e7fjl

The Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd onTwitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.

1.  Search May Not Mean Search – http://tinyurl.com/akb5fl

2.  Considering ESI, Information, and Data? http://tinyurl.com/d8zzyo

3.  Suspicious Timing of Destruction Results in Adverse Inference/Addition of Claim http://tinyurl.com/bhc6hj

4.  E-Discovery Hiring Outlook: Strong for 2009 – http://short.to/1wib

5.  Interesting privilege waiver based on screen capture of email message –  http://bit.ly/grTO

6.  Social Networks: An Avalance of Evidence – http://tinyurl.com/bzxpj9

7.   ABA TECHSHOW 2009 Technology Tips Issue  – http://bit.ly/ApIh

8.   Discovery of Web Pages – http://tinyurl.com/a3kjzc

9.  Conceptual Search in Electronic Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/bjvsjm

10.  Concept Search Versus Keyword Search in Electronic Discovery – http://tinyurl.com/byg4q8  

The Weekly “Top 10″ E-Discovery articles are provided by Unfiltered Orange (@complexd onTwitter) . The entire “Top 10″ series can be found by clicking here.

All of our e-discovery articles can be accessed by clicking here.