By Cathy Lopez
Tune in to any electronic discovery conversation and you will hear the cry for “more standards!”
E-discovery professionals recognize the need for standards, but they struggle with the implementation. E-discovery, after all, is the intersection of two very different backgrounds: the legal profession and information technology.
Legal professionals make efforts to establish legal standards every [...]

By Eric P. Blank
Email is at the core of modern electronic discovery.
Attorneys want to know who sent what messages to whom, when those messages were sent and what those messages were about. For this reason, massive volumes of email are commonly exported for further processing and searching by e-discovery vendors.
With a little investigation, it may [...]

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
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 [...]