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Qualcomm’s Appeal and Sanctioned Attorneys’ Cross-Appeals Dismissed by Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (Aug 20, 2008 10:35)
Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp., No. 05-CV-1958-B (BLM), United States District Court for the South..

Guidelines for tape media management (Aug 20, 2008 01:07)
Like any storage or networking technology, some degree of management is required to make sure that ..

CYBERWARFARE - GEORGIA ON MY MIND (Aug 20, 2008 01:02)
Does anyone seriously think that any country would go to war today and not include cyberwarfare as ..

Women in eDiscovery Announce Their First Career and Technology Expo (Aug 19, 2008 23:32)
Women in eDiscovery, a non-profit organization committed to providing information and education as ..

E-Discovery Goes to Criminal Court (Aug 19, 2008 23:29)
In 2002, the U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation to look into alleged price fixing in..

Black Hat 2008 Aftermath (Aug 19, 2008 23:26)
Lawyers’ guide to security concerns involving computers and networks As always, the 2008 Black Hat ..

Common IT processes to land you in court (Aug 19, 2008 18:36)
Common IT processes to land you in court “Electronically stored information (ESI) is coming under i..

Forrester urges users to avoid overkill with email archiving (Aug 19, 2008 08:37)
Everyone and their brother has an email archiving story to tell you these days, or so it seems. But..

Computer Issues When Key Personnel Defect (Aug 18, 2008 18:33)
Computer Issues When Key Personnel Defect “My firm provides digital forensics and e-discovery servi..

Keep Information Management, E-Discovery on Target (Aug 18, 2008 06:15)
Getting under control both information management and records that are responsive to e-discovery se..

Even More Thoughts on Forensics (Aug 18, 2008 01:11)
Acquiring disks is a very important part of digital forensics. In my past blogs I discussed some as..

On Company Equipment, Don’t Expect Privacy (Aug 18, 2008 01:09)
Most people are getting very comfortable with technology. Non-typers have evolved into typers. Non-..

Cloud Computing : What are the risks involved ? (Aug 18, 2008 01:02)
With the dotcom boom, the data involved is also booming. The amount of data that needs computing or..

SHOULD GEEK SQUADS BE INFORMANTS? (Aug 17, 2008 23:47)
Sassy title, but this was part of a question from a reader. I’m not sure whether he wished to rem..

“Egregious” negligent discovery misconduct rising to the level of bad faith results in adverse inference and monetary sanctions of $320,000 (Aug 17, 2008 20:35)
Keithley v. The Home Store.Com, Inc., 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 61741 (Aug. 12, 2008) Plaintiff requesto..

New Case where Police Use Hash to Catch a Perp and My Favored Truncated Hash Labeling System to ID the Evidence (Aug 17, 2008 20:03)
Part of my discipline as an e-discovery specialist is to try to read (or at least skim) every publi..

Investigator says forensic search of hard drive takes time (Aug 17, 2008 04:43)
Computer crimes investigators usually need between 50 and 70 hours to conduct a complete forensic i..

Cyber crime: Big Brother is watching (Aug 17, 2008 04:31)
John Fotiadis and Yingyong Karnchanapayap explain how Thailand’s new Computer Crimes Act is, perhap..

United States: Current E-Discovery Trends (Aug 17, 2008 04:28)
By now, practically everyone even remotely involved in litigation in the United States knows that d..

AT&T Spys on American’s Internet Usage (Aug 16, 2008 19:19)
EFF and Feds Battle Over Dormant Spy Lawsuit as Immunity Battle Awaits. The Bush Administration and..

Indian Legal Services Company Moves to Dismiss Anti-Outsourcing Lawsuit (Aug 15, 2008 13:29)
Newman McIntosh & Hennessy v. Bush, Civ. No. 08-00787 (CKK) (D.D.C.) This lawsuit seeks declaratory..

Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions for Destruction of ESI Pursuant to Document Retention Policy, Citing FRCP 37(e) Safe Harbor Provision (Aug 15, 2008 12:36)
Gippetti v. UPS, Inc., 2008 WL 3264483 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 6, 2008) In this case, plaintiff alleged tha..

Electronic Records Management: Why Should Financial Executives Care? (Aug 15, 2008 07:32)
Most financial executives are familiar with the records management requirements and implications of..

Now THAT’S Quite A Deal (Aug 15, 2008 07:30)
When records managers all over the government talk about the challenges they face when dealing with..

Calming the Data Storm: A Risk Management Model for Mitigating Risks (Aug 15, 2008 07:26)
Using a risk-based approach for prioritizing efforts to mitigate the greatest information risks is ..

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