Will Agile Project Management Practices Reduce the Risk on Your e-Discovery Project? « Electronic Discovery Project Management

What are the risks for every project? The folks at Project Smart list six common risks for any sort of project: Unrealistic Customer Expectations and Developer Gold-Plating Insufficient Customer Involvement Poor Impact Analysis Scope Creep Defective Requirements New Processes and Tools How would we manage these risks within the context of electronic discovery? via Will … Continue reading Will Agile Project Management Practices Reduce the Risk on Your e-Discovery Project? « Electronic Discovery Project Management

Employment Alert: New Jersey Supreme Court Finds Privacy Rights in Employee E-Mails

Employment Alert: New Jersey Supreme Court Finds Privacy Rights in Employee E-Mails. Earlier this year in the Quon case, we learned that if you're sending personal messages via your company-issued PDA or cell phone, you do not have any right to privacy. It's their phone. Interestingly,  this case from March 2010 (decided prior to Quon) … Continue reading Employment Alert: New Jersey Supreme Court Finds Privacy Rights in Employee E-Mails

The Cooperation Proclamation- The Sedona Conference

The Sedona Conference. The Sedona Conference®, the nation's leading non-partisan, non-profit law-and-policy think tank, is actually doing something about it. Leading jurists, trial attorneys, corporate counsel, government lawyers, and others are signing onto "The Cooperation Proclamation." By doing so, they are pledging to reverse the legal culture of adversarial discovery that is driving up costs … Continue reading The Cooperation Proclamation- The Sedona Conference

A Search Term Turkey « Bow Tie Law’s Blog

Lawyers who are new to electronic discovery may assume things are “impossible.” Moreover, some attorneys argue “undue burden” without consulting with a third-party expert based on the assumption e-Discovery is inherently cost prohibitive. Consulting with a third-party expert, or even performing a Google search, may prove the “impossible” is actually a common practice in many … Continue reading A Search Term Turkey « Bow Tie Law’s Blog

Failure to Test Keywords by Sampling a Prominent Consideration in Court’s Finding of Waiver : Electronic Discovery Law

Keyword searching is a task which requires using technology. As a best practice you should make sure you allow enough time in your project management plan to test and perform quality control measures on your search results. You must have a methodology in place to which you apply the technology you have available. Not the … Continue reading Failure to Test Keywords by Sampling a Prominent Consideration in Court’s Finding of Waiver : Electronic Discovery Law