Archive for the 'e-Discovery' Category

E-discovery evidence can win or lose a case

September 14th, 2008

The Los Angeles Business Journal recently posted an interesting article about how today’s lawyers not only need to be experts in their field of law, but increasingly also need to be eDiscovery experts. More and more e-mails, instant messages and other electronically stored documents are being used as evidence in disputes ranging from corporate law […]

5 tips to comply with new ediscovery rules

December 11th, 2006

The new electronic discovery rules are good news for prepared companies. If your company can demonstrate that you have taken reasonable care in creating guidelines as to what information needs to be retained and what should be purged, this will help in a court order since you can prove that your organization has taken electronic […]

The new e-discovery rules - what they mean for your company

November 30th, 2006

On December 1 the new electronic discovery rules take effect in Federal court. The new rules now obligate companies to address e-discovery issues within 30 days after a lawsuit is filed. Under the old rules, companies could just wait for a discovery request, which could take up to a year after the initial filing of […]