Posts on legal tech, litigation, & eDiscovery

We're constantly hearing about metadata as it relates to eDiscovery, security, and ethics, but metadata remains a confusing topic for many, and there are many misconceptions about it. In this post, we'll provide some examples to help you better...

One of the reasons I decided to learn e-discovery was to save money. Early in my career as a lawyer, I developed a strong aversion to spending money on experts and litigation vendors. After spending $5,000 out of my own pocket in my first year of...

Other than witness testimony, nearly all the evidence worth discovering in litigation is electronic. More often than not, it’s emails, text messages, database records, digital images, metadata, and Microsoft Office files that tell us the truth about...

 I was privileged to have the chance to interview one of my heroes, Craig Ball, a few months ago in a wide-ranging and very interesting talk. It was a lengthy discussion, so we’ve broken the interview into several parts. We cover eDiscovery best...

Lawyers who “do” e-discovery tend to use a lot of hard-core terminology that is bewildering to the uninitiated. That’s unfortunate. Given that e-discovery is discovery, the terminology we use should be user-friendly for all litigators, not just...

I was able to have a lengthy interview with one of my heroes, Craig Ball, a few months ago. This is part three of that interview (check out Part 1 here and Part 2 here). In this portion we discussed best practices for requesting and responding...

I was able to have a lengthy interview with one of my heroes, Craig Ball, a few months ago. This is part two of that interview (check out Part 1 here). In this portion we discussed training on eDiscovery and how much attorneys can do themselves...

There are several time-honored practices in the legal profession whose purpose is a bit hard to understand. Take, for example, the practice of beginning motions with the words "COMES NOW." The only value of starting with these words is that the...