Imagine this: You’re a lawyer representing one of many defendants in a new lawsuit. You receive an email from the plaintiff’s lawyers, addressed to you as well as counsel for 19 other defendants. All that’s in the email is a link to a Dropbox folder, which contains 20 sets of discovery requests (one to each defendant).

For many years, courts and commentators have acknowledged that the attorney-client privilege is the most important privilege in our legal system.

Thanks to computers, the days of flipping through stacks of paper documents are over.

For many people, the smartphone has become almost a new appendage.

Digital forensics has become such a part of Timothy Edwards’ practice that he makes sure to have an analyst next to him during depositions.

The term e-discovery has been around long enough to have become part of the vernacular. But do you know as much as you think you do about electronic discovery?

In 1996, Richard Susskind declared that someday, email would be the primary means of communications for legal professionals — a prediction that was greeted with scorn by attorneys and industry observers.

e-Discovery Assistant is a subscription-based iPad app that was introduced in July. The application is the brainchild of former Quarles & Brady partner Kelly Twigger, who founded ESI Attorneys, a firm specializing in e-discovery and information law, in 2009.

Lawyers are concerned that discovery is getting out of hand.

Ever-evolving and constantly growing, electronic discovery presents a variety of challenges for litigators.

Less than one year after a federal court judge issued a seminal electronic discovery decision blessing the use of computer-assisted review, the technology is already appearing in courts across the country.

Reflecting the always-changing world of technology, electronic discovery presents new challenges for lawyers in 2013. At the forefront: social media evidence, smartphone data and the judicial blessing of a new form of discovery review.

A client may tremble with fear or fume with annoyance when asked to produce electronic data but it’s up to the legal support team to talk the client down from the ledge.

An interesting online reference tool, called Electronic Discovery Best Practices, recently launched.

When it comes to electronically stored information, “[t]he fuss is about money. Discovery is expensive, and electronic discovery is really expensive.” A.L. Brown, “The Manageable Challenge of Electronic Discovery,” formerly posted at www.rkmc.com. Nevertheless, courts have split on which e-discovery costs may be awarded to a prevailing party under 28 U.S.C. §1920(4).

While the sheer amount of electronically stored information continues to grow, the cases in which it appears are sometimes small.

The folks over at Kroll Ontrack have created a map identifying the states with rules and statutes specific to electronically stored information in litigation. The interactive map is color coded to identify if a state has adopted the FRCP model, an independent model, are considering adopting e-discovery rules, or currently have no e-discovery rules.

Some Wisconsin attorneys have been too intimidated at the prospect of e-discovery to learn about it.

On the surface, a minor dog bite case does not seem like a logical instance in which electronic discovery of evidence is necessary.

Attorney Eric Maassen plans to use a lot less paper clips and Post-its in the near future.

They’ve combined legal expertise and technological savvy. They’ve carved out their place in the complex world of electronic discovery. Now, the handful of Wisconsin lawyers who are focusing their practices on the specialized field are trying to overcome the skepticism of a legal community accustomed to going it alone. Traditionally, when law firms need help combing through gigantic files of ...

Boston - Sanction motions and awards for e-discovery violations across the country have climbed dramatically in recent years and have now hit "historic highs," according to a study published in the Duke Law Journal.

Boston (Dolan) - Sanctions in e-discovery cases are at an all-time high, according to a recent analysis published in the Duke Law Journal.

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A recent e-discovery decision provides important lessons for lawyers and companies about spoliation sanctions.