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 [...]
Posts tagged ‘electronic data’
EDEN Seeks to Establish Technical Standards for E-Discovery
November 3rd, 2009
Hands Off, Boss Man: Webmail is Private
July 7th, 2009
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 [...]
Know When to Seek Computer Forensics Expertise
May 21st, 2009
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 [...]








