Ediscovery

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Auditing and Controlling Redactions in eDiscovery Document Review
Auditing and Controlling Redactions in eDiscovery Document Review 150 150 Nextpoint

Electronic redaction in Nextpoint is designed as the ultimate failsafe. Once a piece of information, other parties or opposing counsel cannot recover it. (This has not always been true of other technologies, where redaction failures are common.) In order for redacting to work, it has to be truly unreadable and unrecoverable once in place. Unfortunately, the failsafe…

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5 Simple Steps to Deposition Designations
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5 Simple Steps to Better Deposition Designations
5 Simple Steps to Better Deposition Designations 1024 683 Jason Krause

This guide explains how to use deposition designations to your advantage for a smooth case planning and trial prep process. Testimony from a living, breathing person is always better than recorded testimony in any legal matter. But given the cost and scheduling conflicts that come with a trial, recorded depositions are often a necessity. The…

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Attorney-Client Privilege Review Made Easy
Attorney-Client Privilege Review Made Easy 150 150 Jason Krause

Last week, I had the fortune to co-host the Legal Geeks podcast with Josh Gilliland, talking about attorney-client privilege. In the conversation, I made the point that protecting attorney-client privilege is a matter of hard work, vigilance, and due diligence. As we discussed, while it is possible for parties to agree to a limitation of waiver…

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Protecting Attorney-Client Privilege: Nextpoint on Legal Geeks Podcast
Protecting Attorney-Client Privilege: Nextpoint on Legal Geeks Podcast 150 150 Jason Krause

Nextpoint is going geek. Last week I had the pleasure of joining Josh Gilliland on the Legal Geeks podcast to discuss protecting attorney-client privilege in litigation. Josh and his frequent collaborator Jessica Mederson have done a great job blending discussions of the law with deep conversations about Star Trek and other topics- sometimes in Starfleet uniforms.…

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Why eDiscovery Must be Taught in Law Schools
Why eDiscovery Must be Taught in Law Schools 150 150 Jason Krause

Law schools are in trouble. There are a lot of reasons why this is true, many having to do with wrenching change in the practice of law itself. There is certainly no easy fix for what ails law schools, but we do know that nothing will get better without changing the way young lawyers are…

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eDiscovery Pricing Make no Sense, and The Courts Seem to Agree
eDiscovery Pricing Make no Sense, and The Courts Seem to Agree 150 150 Jason Krause

Want to know why litigation is increasingly expensive and complicated? Take a look at eDiscovery pricing and unpredictable costs. Thanks to a recent federal Appeals Court ruling, Vinter v. Gallo, we get a clear look under the hood to find out what parties are being charged for eDiscovery services in a fairly routine infringement suit.…

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What Lawyers Can Learn from Google About eDiscovery
What Lawyers Can Learn from Google About eDiscovery 150 150 Jason Krause

Google, the company that keeps track of everything people search for on the Internet, doesn’t want you to know how they search for information. At least, that’s what is happening in the ongoing Apple v. Samsung, saga, where Google—a non-party in the case—has been ordered to reveal the search terms it has used to find…

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Understanding Cloud eDiscovery Software
Understanding Cloud eDiscovery Software 150 150 Jason Krause

Nextpoint began as a nimble trial support company, so we love powerful graphics that make your case. We’ve been talking for years about why it’s important that our services are cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service applications, but it’s not easy to explain succinctly. We started a trend. As more eDiscovery software companies jump on our cloud eDiscovery bandwagon, it’s hard to separate…

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Failure to Preserve Facebook for Litigation is Sanctionable. ‘Nuff Said.
Failure to Preserve Facebook for Litigation is Sanctionable. ‘Nuff Said. 150 150 Jason Krause

We’ve been saying this for years, but not everyone was ready to listen — social media is now an essential part of litigation. In case you still have some doubts, the courts have now made it abundantly clear that a failure to preserve Facebook and other social media content is a sanctionable offense. It will…

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eDiscovery Case Law: A Little More Wiggle Room
eDiscovery Case Law: A Little More Wiggle Room 150 150 Jason Krause

If companies have one complaint about eDiscovery, it’s that they are forced to preserve too much data for litigation. In 2011, Microsoft estimated that the ratio of the data it preserves to the data it actually uses in litigation is 340,000 to one. That’s why defining the duty to preserve documents in litigation is a…

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