By C. Dean Little
The 17-month-long U.S. recession has cut into legal budgets everywhere, but it won’t diminish the demand for electronic data extraction services.
Indeed, the demand for extraction services will only increase over the next 18 to 24 months.
Why? My 40 years of experience as a commercial trial lawyer has shown me that documents – [...]

By Charles T. Tsuji
A key challenge in e-discovery today is determining when a computer forensics expert needs to be hired.
Yet, most cases don’t require such experts, even though they can play a critical role in reviewing computer activity or searching for and retrieving specific electronic data from a party’s hard drive, server or peripheral device.
There [...]

By Jonathan Yeh
Today, more than 90 percent of all data is stored on hard disk drives, servers, mainframes and the like. No one prints much of anything out anymore. When faced with litigation, it’s vital that an organization have the ability to find relevant data at the drop of a hat.
Unfortunately, this is easier said [...]

By Eric P. Blank
Blank Law + Technology PS believes that a thorough understanding of the various steps and functions of electronic discovery is imperative to controlling costs in e-discovery cases.
We’ve broken the process down into an eight-step funnel through which all data must pass. Electronic data is collected at the top of the funnel, at [...]

By Eric P. Blank
We at Blank Law + Technology want the Electronic Data Extraction Network to become the destination for all things e-discovery and its blog, Slack Space, to be a leading voice in the industry.
Slack Space is the place where attorneys, paralegals, IT administrators, in-house security teams and e-discovery vendors come to get the [...]