ILS has provided a handy searchable archive of important decisions on discovery matters.
We do so as a convenience and hope that you will find it interesting, helpful and informative.
However, our case briefs are not intended to replace legal research or relieve counsel of their duty to independently evaluate the law as it applies to their particular cases.
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The Missing Weapon in the Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Arsenal
By: Susan Stewart Rich, B.A, J.D Prior to law school, I had been working with lawyers for over ten years. I found them to be a unique group of professionals who passionately immerse themselves in their work. I have been privileged to work with many attorneys who represent their clients
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Asymmetrical Plaintiffs Can Hit the eDiscovery Sweet Spot
Like children with their noses pressed against a bake shop window, parties with large eDiscovery collections requiring pre-production review can often, for a host of reasons, only gaze longingly at the tempting new technology-based tools and techniques that can slash eDiscovery time and costs by staggering amounts. No such constraints
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In re Fontainebleau Las Vegas Contract Litig., 2011 WL 65760 (S.D. Fla. Jan 7, 2011)
By Diane Barry The dangers of mixed use servers. In In re Fontainbleu Las Vegas Contract Litigation the matter concerned financing the construction of the Fontainebleau Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The immediate dispute was over production of ESI : the Fontainebleau moved the court for an extension of
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OLP Education: Litigation Support 101A: The Basics
Starts: Feb 23, 2011 Meets: Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Pacific 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Central 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Eastern Master the skills needed for top-notch Litigation Support positions. Discover how to optimize development and deliver processes so that you can handle a case from the moment it
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Lorman Seminars:Electronic Data, Discovery and Document Storage
Length: 87 minutes Product ID: 387062EAU Benefits Do you find yourself dreading your next eDiscovery matter? Would you like to develop a road map that will guide you through the maze of collecting, processing, reviewing and producing electronic data? This auOnDemand Webinar will help you to develop a well-crafted discovery
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Ethical Obligations in eDiscovery – New Lexis/Nexis Webinar with e-Discovery expert Diane Barry and the Hon. James Smith
2010 Update: Ethical and Professional Obligations in E-Discovery In-Depth CLE* Webinar Wednesday, December 15, 2010 3 p.m. (Americas) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Register Join eDiscovery expert Diane Barry and the Hon. James Smith (Ret.) for a one-hour Webinar on the attorney’s ethical obligations under the new eDiscovery provisions of
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e-Discovery: Proportionality, Technology and Practice Standardization
Principle 6 of the just released Sedona Conference Commentary on Proportionality in Electronic Discovery provides that: Technologies to reduce cost and burden should be considered in the proportionality analysis While most of the provided commentary (parties should meet and confer, etc.) will be familiar to eDiscovery adepts, there is some
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Approaches For Triaging Foreign-Language Documents
One of the many complications encountered with litigation involving international parties is dealing with large volumes of foreign language documents. Typical approaches range anywhere from asking ones international client for translation support, hiring bilingual reviewers to the case team, using Machine Translation (MT) to translate all of the documents and
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Need To Review Non-English Language Documents? Program Based Issue Coding Using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and Machine Language Translation (MT) May Be Your Answer
The litigation document review process is demanding enough when the files being reviewed involve electronically stored information (ESI). When international parties are involved, foreign language documents may be added to the mix. For many litigation case teams, the first impulse is to begin their document review either by hiring translators
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International Parties Litigation Services Group Headed by Mark Shipow Esq. of ILS
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 25, 2009– ILS (International Litigation Services, Inc.) announced today that it has selected Mark Shipow Esq. to direct its International Parties Litigation Services Group Mr. Shipow as a practicing attorney had emphasized representing and litigating against international parties in a wide variety of litigation, arbitration