On November 17, 2009, Google quietly introduced the addition of a new search capability to its Google Scholar search engine: legal opinions and journals. Although somewhat limited in scope and functionality – and thus likely not a replacement for expensive paid services like WestLaw and Lexis – the new Google Scholar search capability and case [...]

By Jeff Meisner
Editor, Slack Space
Blank Law + Technology PS will hold an open house for clients and partners from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29.
BL+T is the parent company of the Electronic Data Extraction Network (EDEN) and TestudoData LLC, an email security, encryption and archiving applications provider. Attendees will have an opportunity [...]

By Charles T. Tsuji
In the past, online databases were typically reserved for “large” cases requiring a team of contract attorneys just to review the documents for relevancy. However, with more than 90 percent of all data today being stored electronically, the use of online document review software is no longer just for the “large” cases.
For [...]

By Jeff Meisner
Editor, Slack Space
Since EDEN’s launch in May 2009, our network has grown to more than 110 companies in 30 states. We’re happy to welcome companies from a range of industries, including IT service providers, law firms and e-discovery service providers.
Over the last four months, we’ve received feedback from our community regarding our Web [...]

By Jonathan Yeh
By now, most of us know that emails sent using work email addresses and systems are not private and are subject to review and access by the companies we work for.  Most employers have policies in place explaining this.
These days, most employees do some private business from work computers, including using Webmail accounts [...]

By Charles T. Tsuji
The first person a CEO calls when hit with a lawsuit is the company’s lawyer.
That’s as it should be.
Who gets the second call though?
In the digital age, it should be the company’s IT manager. And that IT manager better know the company’s network topography the way a mountaineer scaling the rocky precipices [...]

By Cathy Lopez
Launched on May 1, the Electronic Data Extraction Network already has 100 members.
EDEN is a subsidiary of Seattle-based electronic discovery law firm Blank Law + Technology PS. The community’s membership consists of IT service providers and legal professionals in 28 states and Canada.
The community was formed to create a nationwide standard of best [...]

By Eric P. Blank
Cloud computing is on the tip of every technologist’s tongue these days.
Blue chip tech giants such as International Business Machines Corp., the Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have spent hundreds of millions of marketing dollars touting the benefits of cloud computing, which, for all the ink it’s received, is really [...]

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 [...]