ICYMI: Monthly News Round-Up for June 2017

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
  • The New FRE Rule 902 Should Lead to Litigation Cost Savings, Experts Say

• Legal Operations
  • Failing is Learning: 3 Legal Ops Considerations for Creating Consistent Success
  • Legal Departments See More Operations Staff, Emphasis on Predictive Reporting
  • The Present and Future of Analytics at Today’s Law Firms

• Cybersecurity Concerns
  • Taking Stock of Ransomware: What It Is, and Why You Should Care
  • Winning? US Is Top in Corporate Data Breach Costs Thanks to Legal
  • DLA Piper Hit by Cyber Attack, Phones and Computers Down Across the Firm

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):
    • Part 5 – Authentication in the Courts
    • Part 6 – Spoliation
    • Part 7 – Ethical and Reliability Concerns
    • Part 8 – Key Takeaways
  • Measure Twice Series (ongoing):
    • Part 1 – Clichés, Chaos, and eDiscovery Project Planning
    • Part 2 – Initial eDiscovery Project Scoping Steps
    • Part 3 – Investigating Your eDiscovery Project Assumptions

• XDD Practice Guide
  • Conducting Effective Custodian Interviews

• Educational Webinar
  • Gone Viral: Social Media in eDiscovery

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, JD
Director, Education and Content Marketing

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 ten-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.