This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Electronic discovery, while undergoing constant change, is still considered uncharted territory. What kinds of information is discoverable is still debated, along with methods for recovering that information. More and more businesses conduct electronic discovery, but examining hard drives is still very expensive. The amount of information available, however, is not in doubt. As this recent article notes, Google stores search data forever..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 14 March 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

From the site: "Is it time to start treating certain e-discovery tasks as "taxable costs," to be paid for at the conclusion of litigation by the prevailing party? On this edition of Law Technology Now, host Monica Bay chats with Austin-based attorney and special master, Craig Ball, author of Law Technology News' monthly e-discovery column, Ball in Your Court, to discuss whether some EDD tasks should be treated like photocopying. Don't miss this lively discussion!

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From the site: "What effect has the economy had on in-house counsel's role, specifically with regard to managing electronically stored information? In this edition of the ESI Report, Kelly Kubacki, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent fills in for Gina Jytyla and welcomes Everett Upshaw, Senior Litigation Counsel with Nokia and Lisa Spinelli, Legal Consultant for Kroll Ontrack, to discuss the expansion of corporate counsel's roles and responsibilities as a result of economic pressure and the need to streamline existing processes. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Gina and Kelly will take a look at the discovery order issued in Lake v. City of Phoenix.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 23 November 2009

Posted by Rick Borstein: "I took a close look at the Acrobat 9 packaging and didn't find any mention of EDD (Electronic Data Discovery). 

Despite that, I'm hearing from more and more law firms that would like to use Acrobat to capture, review and produce email as part of a case.

A great solution is an Email Portfolio. Acrobat can convert an entire folder of email in Outlook or Lotus Notes into well-organized PDF Portfolio which lets you sort, filter and search.

The Outlook integration provide by Acrobat offers the following:

1. Convert individual email messages to PDF
2. Adds attachments in their native format into the PDF of the message
3. Combines all of the converted messages into a PDF Portfolio
4. Adds a full-text index to the PDF Portfolio

Acrobat's email archiving feature is intended to be a personal email archiving tool, however with a bit of tweaking (and perhaps a plug-in like Evermap's AutoPortfolio), you may be able to use it successfully to manage small EDD productions.

New to Email Portfolios?
Learn about the basics of Email Portfolios by watching this short movie

In this article, I'll discuss:

1. How to create a new User Account for production
2. Setting up a "null user" in Outlook
3. How to load PST and MSG files into Outlook
4. How to convert email messages into an PDF Email Portfolio
5. Reviewing documents in the Email Portfolio
6. Producing Documents from the Email Portfolio
7. Converting an Email Portfolio to a PDF Binder
8. How to use Evermap's AutoPortfolio tool to move data to a litigation support product like Summation or Concordance

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Source: Acrobat for Legal Professionals, 1 November 2009

From the site: "In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes Joe DeMarco, Partner with DeVore & DeMarco LLP and Jason Paroff, Senior Director of Computer Forensics Operations at Kroll Ontrack to discuss a recent case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc. Mr. Demarco and Mr. Paroff will take an in-depth look into the court's analysis, including the potential impact on law enforcement agencies who conduct investigations where digital evidence is at issue. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent, Kelly Kubacki will take a look at the discovery order issued in United States v. Sensient Colors, Inc.

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Source: Legal Talk Network, 22 October 2009

In the news: "Even though scores of e-discovery companies have disappeared recently, there is agreement among industry observers that EDD represents a growth opportunity for vendors. As special master and consultant Craig Ball says, "It's just a business that needs a little maturing."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 12 October 2009. Copyright 2008.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe  <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

In the news: "Businesses considering the implementation of new digital voicemail systems should evaluate their effect on the company's e-discovery obligations to preserve, search for and disclose data relevant to litigation or investigation, say Gibbons lawyers Marc S. Sidoti and Paul E. Asfendis."

Topics discussed include:

FOUR DIGITAL ARRANGEMENTS

·        Option 1: Basic Digital Voicemail...

·        Option 2: E-mail Notice...

·        Option 3: Link...

·        Option 4: Unified Messaging...

ISSUES AND DISCUSSION

·        Option 1: Digital voicemail...

·        Option 2: E-Mail Notice...

·        Option 3: Link...

·        Option 4: Unified Messaging...

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 9 October 2009. Copyright 2008.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe  <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

From the e-newsletter: "Law firms big and small face similar challenges with the vast and increasingly important field of legal technology."

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 7October 2009 Copyright © 2008 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

In the news: "Collecting ESI from the cloud isn't tomorrow's problem -- it's the rare e-discovery scenario that doesn't involve webmail and a facility to download it to a local collection amenable to EDD processing. Consultant Craig Ball details the steps he used to POP multiple Yahoo Mail folders."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 25 September 2009. Copyright 2008.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>

From the e-newsletter: "If you were under the misguided impression that attorneys and their litigant clients only need to deal expressly with electronic discovery in federal court, you need to wake up and smell the e-discovery coffee."

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 23 September 2009 Copyright © 2008 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.