A monthly round-up of eDiscovery industry news stories, useful publications, and notable cases of which you should be aware from the preceding month
Welcome to “Because You Need to Know,” XDD’s monthly news round-up. In these posts, we gather together interesting articles, noteworthy cases, new publications, and XDD materials from the preceding month. This post gathers items of interest from January 2021.
Industry News Stories
Interesting topics in the news in January included procedural rule changes, GDPR enforcement news, and continuing adaptation to virtual legal proceedings:
- Procedural Rule Changes
- GDPR Enforcement News
- Virtual Legal Proceedings
Notable Cases
New eDiscovery cases discussed in January included:
- A Tale of Two Cases: TAR Trouble Arises from ESI Protocol
- Some States Do Not Follow the Federal Work Product Rule Approach
- SDNY Correctly Protects Preliminary Drafts of Publicly Disseminated Documents
- Several Courts Allow Categorical Privilege Logs
- Houston Judge Thrown Off Case Over Text Reading ‘Helping Behind the Scenes’
Useful Publications
New industry publications released in January included:
- The Sedona Conference Commentary on the Enforceability in U.S. Courts of Orders and Judgments Entered under GDPR
- The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ephemeral Messaging, Public Comment Version
- The Thomson Reuters 2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market
XDD Materials
In January, XDD published a new blog article and a new educational webinar:
- Educational Webinar
- Alphabet Soup: TAR, CAL, and Assisted Review – Over the decade since TAR first rose to prominence, solutions, acronyms, and new cases have proliferated dramatically. All of this rapid technical and legal evolution has made it challenging for practitioners to get a simple handle on TAR and what it means for their matters. In this free, one-hour educational webinar, XDD Director of Education Matthew Verga explores the answers to some of the most common practitioner questions to better equip you to leverage TAR in your matters, including: what terms and concepts to know, whether you’re allowed to use TAR, whether you can be made to use TAR, whether process transparency is required, how good is good enough, and more.
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About the Author
Matthew Verga
Director of Education
Matthew Verga is an electronic discovery expert proficient at leveraging his legal experience as an attorney, his technical knowledge as a practitioner, and his skills as a communicator to make complex eDiscovery topics accessible to diverse audiences. A thirteen-year industry veteran, Matthew has worked across every phase of the EDRM and at every level from the project trenches to enterprise program design. He leverages this background to produce engaging educational content to empower practitioners at all levels with knowledge they can use to improve their projects, their careers, and their organizations.
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