A monthly round-up of industry news stories, useful publications, and notable cases of which you should be aware from the preceding month
Welcome to “In Case You Missed It,” XDD’s monthly news round-up. In these posts, we gather together interesting articles, new publications, noteworthy cases, and XDD materials from the preceding month. This post gathers items of interest from June 2017.
Industry News Stories
Interesting news stories from June include discussion of a revised evidentiary rule that may simplify some authentication, articles on legal operations trends towards process management and analytics, and articles on the growing cybersecurity impacts in legal practice:
- Evidentiary Rule Change
- Legal Operations
- Cybersecurity Concerns
Notable Cases
A handful of interesting cases came to the industry’s attention in June:
- Meet and confer again, before burying the court in motion practice
- Routine deletion, in the absence of notice of litigation, not sanctionable
- Repeated, intentional spoliation leads to case terminating sanctions
- Judge directs search terms to be used for supplemental discovery
- Possession, custody, or control not limited to physical possession
XDD Materials
XDD published seven new blog articles, one new Practice Guide, and one new educational webinar in June:
- Blog Articles
- Gone Viral: Social Media in eDiscovery (series continued from May):
- Measure Twice Series (ongoing):
- XDD Practice Guide
- Educational Webinar
As always, we welcome your input regarding future topics for our webinars, articles, and white papers. Share your interests with us here.
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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