Ediscovery

Divorce in the Age of Facebook: We Don't Have to Fight (Family Law Cases)

Divorce in the Age of Facebook: We Don't Have to Fight (Family Law Cases) 150 150 Jason Krause

Divorce is always a messy proposition. As discussed this week, Facebook and social media have blown up family law cases and made a contentious process even more volatile. The most spectacular recent case in this regard is perhaps a Connecticut divorce in which the husband and wife were ordered to exchange passwords so they could…

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eDiscovery Overkill in Family Law Cases

eDiscovery Overkill in Family Law Cases 150 150 nextpointguest

Like a lot of small computer forensics companies, about 25 percent of our cases involve family law. Emotions often run high in family law matters, especially when adultery is a factor (and it is almost always present). Regardless of who is cheating, the aggrieved spouse is generally some unhappy combination of angry, sad and bitter.…

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eDiscovery Case Law Update: Facebook is Exploding Family Law

eDiscovery Case Law Update: Facebook is Exploding Family Law 150 150 Jason Krause

Social Media and Family law are a volatile mix. According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), more than 80 percent of divorce attorneys have used social media posts in divorce court cases. In a prominent recent case, a judge in Connecticut ordered a husband and wife to exchange social media and dating site passwords as the…

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Small Firms and Social Media eDiscovery

Small Firms and Social Media eDiscovery 150 150 Jason Krause

May will be “social media in the law month” on our blog, putting a spotlight on the ways social media is changing eDiscovery for small firms and personal cases. Enter Small Law eDiscovery was once the sole concern of Big Law and large-scale litigation, but has increasingly become an issue in smaller cases for smaller…

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The Only Feature That Matters in eDiscovery

The Only Feature That Matters in eDiscovery 150 150 Nextpoint

Fourteen years ago, if you visited Google.com, you would have found pretty much the same basic search functionality you see today. Amazingly, since that time Google has been able to offer the same mind-blowing search speeds despite the explosion of content. In 1998, Google indexed 28 million pages. By 2000 that number was 1 billion.…

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The Cozy World of eDiscovery Implodes

The Cozy World of eDiscovery Implodes 150 150 Jason Krause

Having recently come from the ABA Techshow in Chicago, it was interesting to see that even after more than a decade of explosive growth, the field of litigation technology is still largely dominated by a small handful of experts. As with any insular world, there’s always a chance for conflicts of interest and the appearance…

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Does Your eDiscovery Technology Scale?

Does Your eDiscovery Technology Scale? 150 150 Rakesh Madhava

There is a lot of scary talk in the industry about a ‘data deluge’ overwhelming litigation. But the real issue that no one wants to acknowledge is that traditional eDiscovery technology simply doesn’t scale well enough to handle the exploding data requirements of discovery. The first thing to understand is that eDiscovery data requirements will…

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Why Florida’s eDiscovery Rules Matter

Why Florida’s eDiscovery Rules Matter 150 150 Jason Krause

Blast from the (recent) Past: This post was originally published on October, 4, 2012. To help Florida attorneys understand the new eDiscovery rules in their state, Nextpoint is offering a free webinar. Register Now and join us on Wednesday, March 6 at 1:00 p.m. It might seem difficult to get excited over the state of Florida adopting…

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Predictive Coding: Green Light or Yellow Caution?

Predictive Coding: Green Light or Yellow Caution? 150 150 Jason Krause

It’s not often that a discovery order is so eagerly anticipated that the judge has to calm down an overheated blogosphere. This week’s hotly discussed e-discovery ruling from U.S Magistrate Andrew Peck regarding the use of predictive coding in litigation includes an unusually direct footnote for legal bloggers. “To correct the many blogs about this…

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The Cost of Ediscovery: Is it Overpriced?

The Cost of Ediscovery: Is it Overpriced? 150 150 Jason Krause

Oooh Wow! The cost of eDiscovery. Let’s face it — the reason why eDiscovery is still such a pernicious topic in the legal profession are the eDiscovery costs. Most of the other details about managing ESI in litigation are well understood. We know, for example, that almost all electronic data and metadata is discoverable. And…

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