By Charles T. Tsuji
The employee handbook is the staple of any human resources department.
In addition to the proper use of vacation time, 401(k) contribution information and mandatory arbitration clauses, many employee handbooks contain language informing employees that their company issued computers and email accounts are for work purposes only. Some handbooks even state that the [...]

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 Alex Harmon
Mobile phones and other portable devices are a hotbed of activity in the electronic discovery industry.
Phones typically contain incoming and outgoing call logs, voicemails and text messages. These devices also utilize nearly every form of communication used on the Internet, including social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, as well as other [...]

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 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
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 [...]