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Avoiding the Crossfire: The Lessons of Zubulake V
“When communication between counsel and client breaks down, conversation becomes “just crossfire,” and there are usually casualties.” Zubulake V, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13574 (S.D.N.Y. July 20, 2004). Zubulake V picks up where the last order left off, being that the Court found the defendants had breached their duty to
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Did the Zubulake III Back Up Email Tapes Contain Relevant Data? You Bet They Did!
Monday’s blog discussed the Zubulake I case, where Judge Shira Scheindlin looked at eDiscovery accessibility to categorize different types of electronic data before a cost shifting analysis. The more inaccessible the data is, the more likely that cost shifting is appropriate. She ordered the defendants to produce a small set
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Do Plaintiffs Have the Right to Choose eDiscovery Production Methods?
More cases are coming down across the nation dealing with eDiscovery review methods, and a common theme has been to order computer-assisted document review (aka “predictive coding”) to make document review more efficient. Sometimes, this is beneficial for plaintiffs, such as our discussion of the National Day Laborer Organization, where