Weekly Top Story Digest – May 11, 2011

Compiled by ComplexDiscovery from online public domain resources, provided for your review/use is this week’s update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News
Content and Considerations

• 67 Seconds of Porn . . . You’re Fired! http://tinyurl.com/6e8vqra (Ben Kerschberg)
• Anti-Spam Law Governs Social Media Pages, Court Rules – http://tinyurl.com/3oce3r7 (Eric Sinrod)
• Cost-Shifting eDiscovery and Third-Parties – http://tinyurl.com/3uuvhcv (Josh Gilliland)
• Court Declines to Hold that Lack of Written Litigation Hold Allows Presumption that Relevant Evidence was Lost or Destroyed - http://tinyurl.com/3hazg7j (K&L Gates)
• Court Finds Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Failing to Object to Admission of Email - http://tinyurl.com/3dm4cgk (Michael Arkfeld)
• eDiscovery Case Law: Written Litigation Hold Notice Not Required - http://tinyurl.com/43hwapv (Doug Austin)
• E-Discovery For Defendants 2.0 - http://tinyurl.com/3nskuhy (Jim Beck)
• E-Discovery Sanctions Reach Towering Heights and Should Be Applauded – http://onforb.es/j1hI7d (Ben Kerschberg)
• Federal Judge Cuts Fee Sanctions for Withheld Discovery – http://tinyurl.com/3s9dyco (Mary Pat Gallagher)
• How Employers Can Balance Social Media Rights and Obligations – http://tinyurl.com/4xjxupc (Amy Komoroski Wiwi, Lawren Biscoe)
• How to Prepare Your Expert Witness - http://tinyurl.com/3qdsd34 (Mark Adams)
• IP Addresses Alone Cannot be Used to Identify Individuals, US Judge Says - http://tinyurl.com/3d27u8r (Pinsent Masons)
• Judge Accuses D.C. of Discovery Violation ‘So Extreme As To Be Literally Unheard Of’ - http://tinyurl.com/3d74m72 (Zoe Tillman)
• Judge Calls out D.C. for “Corrupt Production Strategy” (PDF) http://bit.ly/iJsb3e (Seth Row)
• Maryland’s Social Media Evidence Authentication Decision Provides Much Needed Guidance - http://tinyurl.com/3utk6cm (Bradley Shear)
• Phase Two of Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program Extended to May 2012 - http://tinyurl.com/42feyrr (K&L Gates)
• Plaintiff Permitted to Serve Discovery on Google & Blogspot to Determine Identity of Anon Blogger - http://tinyurl.com/3ej3zej (Jonathan Frieden)
• Prolific SharePoint Sites Undermine Governance – http://tinyurl.com/3jrds8o (Jake Frazier)
• Pros and Cons of Pennsylvania’s Proposed eDiscovery Rules Changes - http://tinyurl.com/4x5zag5 (Leonard Deutchman)
• Recent Rulings Focus on Spoliation of ESI – http://tinyurl.com/4xp3d67 (Mark Berman)
• Relief From Onerous Steps to Protect Expert Work Product – http://tinyurl.com/3ue3eus (David Kiefer)
• Riding the Wave of Early Case Assessment – http://tinyurl.com/3j6wrob (Charles Skamser)
• Social Media in eDiscovery and as Evidence in Litigation – http://tinyurl.com/3lv298g (Michael Lynch, Lystra Batchoo)
• Spouse’s Right to Informal Pre-Divorce eDiscovery – http://tinyurl.com/3l2a29b (Joe Howie)
• Super-Injunctions: Web ‘Making Mockery’ of Privacy Laws – http://tinyurl.com/3tjyu7y (Andrew Porter)
• The Tenth Circuit Speaks! http://tinyurl.com/3aprbfv (Christopher Spizzirri)
• Twitter Tests U.K. Courts on Injunctions as Key Privacy Ruling Looms - http://tinyurl.com/3bd9v3k (Sofia Lind)
• Understanding E-Discovery and FOI for Australian Information Professionals - http://tinyurl.com/3psp6ap (Seamus Byrne)
• What ‘Effective’ Compliance Really Looks Like – http://tinyurl.com/3whthwo (Matt Kelly)
• What Every Corporate Attorney Must Know About European Union E-Discovery Rules. An Update - http://tinyurl.com/3tynq44 (Santiago Cueto)

Reports and Resources

• TREC 2011 Legal Track Plans Overview - http://tinyurl.com/cu6gre (Gordon Cormack, Maura Grossman, Bruce Hedin, Douglas Ord)
• eDiscovery Education and Certification - http://tinyurl.com/3uaeqzl (Ralph Losey)
• Law Enforcement Use of GPS Devices to Monitor Motor Vehicles: Fourth Amendment Considerations (PDF) http://tinyurl.com/3dsqjlc (Congressional Research Service)
• Legal IT Professionals and LSN Publish Results of the Global Legal IT Survey - http://tinyurl.com/3k4vamx (Rob Ameerun)
• Project Grants Free Public Access to Federal Court Rulings – http://tinyurl.com/3qyqrzl (Karen Sloan)
• Right Sourcing Electronic Discovery – http://tinyurl.com/2cc4shx (Orange Legal Technologies)
• Statement of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law - http://tinyurl.com/3w8ues7 (USDOJ)
• The Deciders: Facebook, Google, and the Future of Privacy and Free Speech (PDF) - http://tinyurl.com/3vkmpd8 (Jeffrey Rosen)

Technology and Tactics

• 5 Repercussions of a Hacked Exchange Server Account – http://tinyurl.com/3kqz27e (Paul Mah)
• A Non-GPS Internet Tracking Method - http://tinyurl.com/3syw8d5 (Michael Kassner)
• BranchOut Raises $18M For Facebook-Focused Professional Network - http://tinyurl.com/3mcmoat (Leena Rao)
• Can Your Camera Make You an Infringer? http://tinyurl.com/6bl99t5 (Michael Cesarano)
• Cloud Is Risky But Safer Than Offshoring, CFOs Say – http://tinyurl.com/44sxr7k (Eric Doyle)
• Domestic Surveillance Court Approved 100% of 2010 Warrant Requests - http://tinyurl.com/6byoeu4 (David Kravets)
• Ethical Guidelines for Legal Process Outsourcing – http://tinyurl.com/3eza3wa (Donna Seyle)
• Facebook Apps Have Been Accidentally Leaking User Data for Years - http://tinyurl.com/5totmhs (Emil Protalinski)
• Facebook as Web - http://tinyurl.com/3byl3ro (Nicole Ferraro)
• Domain Name Registar Go Daddy’s Dynamic GC – http://tinyurl.com/3nq2jvz (Shannon Green)
• Google Prepared to Pay $500M to Settle Department of Justice Investigation - http://tinyurl.com/3pmzdlk (Ben Parr)
• IDC Establishes A New Storage Category – http://tinyurl.com/3nnsejc (Chuck Hollis)
• It’s Official: Microsoft Acquires Skype for $8.5 Billion - http://on.mash.to/iiWkxE (Lauren Indvik)
• Nine Days from Sony Security Breach to Class Action Lawsuit – http://tinyurl.com/3h8o42w (Stephen Wu)
• NIST Body Backs Beefing up Cybersecurity in Smart Grid Standards - http://tinyurl.com/4ydxmzw (InfoSecurity)
• OpenID Warns Of Serious Bug - http://tinyurl.com/3qx79uf (Mathew Schwartz)
• Plaintiffs Seek MDL Status for Suits Against Sony over PlayStation Breach - http://tinyurl.com/3lnuzn4 (Sheri Qualters)
• Settlement Licenses and Reasonable Royalties – http://tinyurl.com/3vs2shd (Richard Raysman, Peter Brown)
• Social Media At Peak Of Hype Cycle - http://tinyurl.com/3gs2xkl (David Carr)
• Text Analytics Adoption Grows by Leaps and Bounds – http://tinyurl.com/3wgcgbx (Seth Grimes)
• The Legal Business Has Undergone A Structural Change – http://tinyurl.com/448ae7b (The Economist)
• The Dichotomy Paradox, Data Quality and Zero Defects – http://tinyurl.com/3czbj2p (Jim Harris)
• The LinkedIn S-1: Social Networks, Legally Drawn -http://tinyurl.com/42so35o (John Wallbillich)
• Visualizing Microsoft SharePoint Documents – http://tinyurl.com/3cdrjrl (Mark Gerow)
• Webcam Spying Case Raises User Knowledge and Consent Issues - http://tinyurl.com/3n7bnk3 (Lora Bentley)

Twitter Hashtags of the Week

• #CEIC2011
• #eDiscovery
• #LegalTech

Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

• Actiance Selected by Smarsh as Social Media Compliance Partner - http://tinyurl.com/6y3bsnz (Press Release)
• An eDiscovery Update – http://tinyurl.com/22ul3h2 (Orange Legal Technologies)
• Bridgeway Unveils Major Enhancements to LawManager – http://tinyurl.com/3s9ztzh (PR Newswire)
• C2C Release New Tech Tips for Eliminating Microsoft Outlook PST Files - http://tinyurl.com/3ek9gl7 (Press Release)
• Data Storage Corporation and BlueArc Form Valuable Partnership to Deliver Increased Data Protection – http://tinyurl.com/4yjrem3 (Marketwire)
• Detroit Legal Imaging Chooses Trial Solutions as Technology Partner - http://tinyurl.com/3edre6d (Press Release)
• DISH Network Brings in Redgrave LLP as National Discovery Counsel - http://tinyurl.com/3jwygsn (PRNewswire)
• Document Solutions Inc. (DSi) Employs Server Virtualization as Green Initiative - http://tinyurl.com/444jhaw (PR Web)
• doeLEGAL Selected by BASF Corporation to Manage Legal Spend – http://tinyurl.com/3dvozt4 (PRWeb)
• DSU Discovery Installs InControl™ by Reveal Data as its Lit Supt Platform and Expands to Minneapolis - http://tinyurl.com/3s52ql5 (PR Web)
• eDiscovery Technology TunnelVision Introduces Flexible Search – http://tinyurl.com/3mab57x (PR Web)
• eTERA Consulting Announces Integr1ty One Discovery Management Services - http://tinyurl.com/435od36 (PR Web)
• Fortune 100 Technology Company Selects Recommind for Information Access - http://tinyurl.com/3tm9zav (Marketwire)
• Guidance Software Reports Record Q1 2011 Revenue – http://tinyurl.com/3la4yf4 (Business Wire)
• IBM Adds Linear Tape File System Support, Larger Drives to Tape Libraries - http://tinyurl.com/3qdhup8 (Sonja Lelii)
• Index Engines Announces Collection Engine for EMC Data Domain Storage Platforms - http://tinyurl.com/43dgy8d (Press Release)
• Informative Graphics Announces Release of Latest Redact-It – http://tinyurl.com/3tlxuw7 (Press Release)
• Informative Graphics Corporation Announces Brava! 7 for EMC Documentum Webtop 6.7 - http://tinyurl.com/3wdgx3n (Press Release)
• Integreon Expands Operations Consulting Services for Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments - http://tinyurl.com/3qf63t8 (Press Release)
• Iron Mountain Raises Possible Share Buys by $850M – http://tinyurl.com/3g5fx2h (Associated Press)
• Relativity 7 Pre-Release Now Available - http://tinyurl.com/3rtlsht (kCura)
• Lighthouse Hires Chris Dahl As Director Of eDiscovery Solutions – http://tinyurl.com/3wrb97y (Press Release)
• Litigation Support Industry Veteran Ed Cruz Joins Document Technologies, Inc. http://tinyurl.com/3tgxmg4 (Press Release)
• Mark Barker joins DocAuto as Director of Development – http://tinyurl.com/4yc7omk (Press Release)
• MGM Studios Selects StoredIQ for In-House eDiscovery – http://tinyurl.com/3l6hd5p (Business Wire)
• Nexsan E-Series Offers Up 3 TB Drives Minus the Performance and Rebuild Worries - http://tinyurl.com/3zzlw5p (Jerome Wendt)
• Nextpoint Announces the Release of Cloud Preservation Public API - http://tinyurl.com/3w8boln (PRWeb)
• Project Leadership Associates Bolsters Practice with eDiscovery Certifications - http://tinyurl.com/5w8mjaq (Press Release)
• Recommind Adds Cloud Capabilities to Flagship Enterprise Search Product - http://tinyurl.com/6el5453 (Marketwire)
• Recommind Forms Strategic Alliance With LexisNexis for Hosted eDiscovery Service - http://tinyurl.com/3vhywx6 (Legal IT Professionals)
• RiverGlass Signs Key Partnership With Litigation Logisitics, LLC – http://tinyurl.com/4ywhpet (Marketwire)
• The Dolan Company (DiscoverReady Parent) Reports First Quarter Results - http://tinyurl.com/3mk4kwl (Press Release)
• TransPerfect Legal Solutions and Catalyst Repository Systems Announce Partnership for Asia EDD - http://tinyurl.com/3d6yats (Business Wire)
• Workshare Releases Upgrade to Document Comparison Server – http://tinyurl.com/3n5urr7 (Legal IT Professionals)
• Xerox and Cisco to Form Alliance to Deliver Cloud Services – http://tinyurl.com/3cy8g8a (Press Release)

eDiscovery Events

May

2011 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 12-13, 2011
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.

CEIC 2011 Computer Investigations Conference
May 15-18, 2011
Orlando, FL
Click here for more information.

LegalTech West
May 17-18, 2011
Los Angeles, CA
Click here for more information

11th Annual Inside Counsel Super Conference
May 23-24, 2011
Chicago, IL
Click here for more information.

ACC Europe – Annual Conference
May 29-31, 2011
Berlin, Germany
Click here for more information.

June

Techno Security & Digital Investigations Conference
June 5-8, 2011
Myrtle Beach, SC
Click here for more information.

eDiscovery Readiness for Government
June 6-7, 2011
Arlington, VA
Click here for more information.

Annual Discovery & E-Discovery Conference (Law Bulletin Seminars)
June 8, 2011
Chicago, IL
Click here for more information.

 

For Complete Events Calendar Visit – http://tinyurl.com/24cbckg

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