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Sedona Conference Publishes 2nd Edition of Principles for Electronic Document Production
Ohio Employer's Law Blog
John Hyman
For those interested in e-discovery, the Sedona Conference, one of the country's preeminent legal think tanks in the areas of antitrust law, intellectual property, and complex litigation, has published The Sedona Principles (Second Edition): Best Practices Recommendations and Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production,
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Storage Spending At A Crossroads
Info World
Mario Apicella
Regulations such as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) -- which outline discovery rules for electronic records in the event of litigation -- are doing their part to feed the spending beast by increasingly tying storage to management operations that, in turn, require even greater levels of purchasing, both in terms of capacity and tools....
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Survey Reveal Organizations Are Unprepared For E-Discovery Requests
Industry Week
Brad Kenney
Many companies are not well prepared for the new amendments made to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which require organizations that operate within the United States to manage their electronic data so that it can be produced in a timely and complete manner. As a result, many IT departments are seeking technology solutions...
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Getting Up To Speed On FRCP
Enterprise Storage Forum
Marty Foltyn
Savvy storage managers would be wise to get up to speed on new regulations on e-discovery and electronic data management. New amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) now require organizations...
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IM at Work, Part 2: Tools for Locking Down
E-Commerce Times
Jack M. Germain
Applications such as IM, Skype, and Web conferencing can deliver significant business value to business users. However, they can also introduce three main kinds of business risks: inbound threats, outbound leakage and regulatory and e-discovery non-compliance. The challenge is that many organizations have a mix of both public IM usage and enterprise IM usage.
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E-Discovery: New Federal Rules Require a Proactive Strategy
Information Week
Patrick Mueller
It's a perfect storm: the rapid-fire growth of digitized enterprise data, new regulatory requirements, and tough e-discovery readiness levels demanded by the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. No wonder Gartner estimates that by 2010, three of four large enterprise IT departments will employ dedicated legal or e-discovery specialists--few IT groups have experienced the level of interdisciplinary cooperation they'll need to stay afloat.
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LegalTech West Coast 2007: Litigation-Ready
Law.com
Sean Doherty
I attended my first LegalTech West Coast event as an ALM editor for Law.com, Legal Technology section on June 20-21. Being a veteran of Consumer Electronic Shows, Interops and Supercoms, I...
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Litigation Preparedness: A Checklist for Corporate Counsel
The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
Cecil A. Lynn III
According to a recent survey, only seven percent of corporate counsel attorneys rate their companies as prepared for the electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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Enterprise search provider buys storage company Zantaz
Computer Weekly
Jo Maitland
Enterprise search software company, Autonomy, has snapped up records management provider Zantaz for approximately $375 million in cash, signalling further consolidation around electronic discovery, or better known as e-discovery. The deal comes a week after Iron Mountain's acquisition of  records management software firm, Accutrac...
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Electronic documents used in legal proceedings could boost stature of IT professionals
SC Magazine
Ericka Chickowski
IT security professionals are scrambling to learn how the latest change in federal regulations governing electronic legal documents affects their jobs.
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What Do The New Federal Rules For Managing Email Really Mean?
eMediaWire™
The new federal rules regarding the legal discovery of electronic documents caught many organizations unprepared when they became effective December 1. The new rules aimed the judicial spotlight squarely on the management of e-mail. When information is managed poorly it can cost companies millions - even billions - in fines and sanctions. To better understand the new rules and their impact, turn to the experts - in this case, Judge Shira Scheindlin, a recent keynote speaker for ARMA International.
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Finding Gold in New E-Discovery Provisions
CMSWiRE
Angela Natividad
After five years in review, the Supreme Court amended a series of federal rules surrounding civil litigation. Included among these are an elaboration of existing rules regarding electronic discovery. Discovery is the process by which both sides of a litigation provide supporting evidence in a trial.
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FBI Forensic Analysts Aid Local Police in Terrorism, Major Crime Cases
TCV
Jim Kouri
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) on Monday announced the opening of a new laboratory and office suite for the forensic examination of radiological material and associated evidence, located at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina.
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Canadian legal community mulls impact of U.S. e-discovery rules
Changes to govern file format approval, data retrieval in court cases
IT Business
Briony Smith
The United States implemented several changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure last Friday that could make waves for Canadian IT staff working not only in law, but in all industries.
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E-Discovery Rules Prompt a Wake-Up Call for Businesses
Newswise | ProfNet Wire
JANE POLITZ BRANDT, attorney at THOMPSON & KNIGHT
New federal rules on how electronically stored information is used in litigation could serve as an unanticipated wake-up call for many companies.
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New E-Discovery Rules Take Effect Today
You have to know what information your company is storing and where it's located. And if you think it's going to be too difficult or expensive to find court-requested data, you'll need to prove it.
Information Week
Larry Greenemeier
The U.S. legal system on Friday made good on its promise to get stricter in compelling companies to produce electronically stored information as evidence in civil court cases. As of Dec. 1, companies and their IT departments must produce information earlier in the litigation process, and if they can't, they'd better be ready to explain why.
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New Federal Rules to Affect Companies' Electronic Files
Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
New federal rules taking effect today widens the scope of electronic discovery during litigation making corporate information on home computers, PDAs and text messages a target of discovery motions.
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New Federal E-Discovery Rules Change Patent Litigation
Hidden Metadata in Microsoft and PDF Documents Can Create Landmines, Wolf Greenfield Lawyer Says
Market WIRE
Wolf Greenfield - IP Law
BOSTON, MA -- The new federal rules on electronically stored information are changing the litigation game -- especially for patent suits, Adam Kessel, a litigator with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., a Boston intellectual property law firm, writes in the October issue of New England In-House.
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New rules make archiving electronic data important
Mlive.com Business Reviews
Mark Fellows
New federal court rules effective Dec. 1 make it more important for businesses to archive and be able to locate electronically generated information before being forced to by a lawsuit.
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Date rape drug cited in attack
Portsmouth Herald Local News
Elizabeth Dinan
PORTSMOUTH -- Police allege a Rhode Island man plied a woman with alcohol and a date rape drug before sexually assaulting her during an August date in the city...
...Police allege he declined the opportunity to be interviewed during the months-long investigation, which involved computer forensics.
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Safe shopping: Some tips to make experience positive
Crescent-News.com
Heather Baughman
Holiday shopping can be both exciting and disappointing, depending on the shopper's experience. To make the most out of holiday buying, there are certain safety tips to keep in mind, whether shopping at stores or at home using the computer.
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Aloha man held in murder of Bethany mother, two sons
Ricardo Serrano arrested after three-week investigation into triple homicide
The Beaverton Valley Times
A 31-year-old Aloha man will be arraigned this afternoon in connection with the Nov. 3 slaying of a Bethany woman and her two young sons...
...The trail included a search for Melody Dang's Toshiba notebook computer, which detectives believe was stolen during the murders.
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Official seeks to erase hard drive, Morgan commissioner alleges
Decatur Daily News
Sheryl Marsh
A Morgan County commissioner said he heard that an elected official was seeking a device to clean up a computer hard drive after a law firm started investigating county e-mails.
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E-Discovery Amendments Raise Liability Concerns
Newswise | ProfNet Wire
Damon Hacker, president and CEO of Cleveland-based VESTIGE, LTD.
Technology has revolutionized business communications, and now organizations must be prepared for its impact on corporate litigation. On Dec. 1, amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure will take effect, addressing the discovery of electronically stored information (e.g., e-mails, text messages, instant messages, memos, etc.) in all federal cases.
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Technology Is In the Eye of the Beholder
Officer.com
An interview with Scott Barker by Jonathan Kozlowski
The days of index card record keeping and calling dispatch for information are long gone. Today, information is fast, in real time and at an officer's fingertips. Many technologies have been created, adapted and adopted into today's police procedure.
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