In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today break down a recent ruling in Hall v. Warren, where a federal judge shut down every single objection raised by the City of...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today break down RIG Consulting, Inc. v. Rogers, where a court called a defendant’s failure to produce Teams messages and emails...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today discuss how courts are beginning to address the challenges of AI-generated evidence, including deepfakes. Drawing from the...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today unpack a court’s bold move in the Meta Pixel healthcare case – ordering the production of third-party cookie data tied to...more
6/30/2025
/ Class Action ,
Data Privacy ,
Discovery ,
Document Productions ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Healthcare ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today unpack a key ruling in Allergan v. Revance concerning "BYOD" – or "Bring Your Own Device" – policies. The court denied...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today discuss key takeaways from Tremblay v. OpenAI, where the court denied plaintiffs’ proposed search terms for a third time. They...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today break down a key antitrust ruling in De Coster v. Amazon.com, where a judge ordered 54 of 85 documents reviewed in camera to be...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today explore a key stipulation from the In re Uber Techs. Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation that’s reshaping the handling of...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today explore how lawyers, once slow to adopt technology, are now eagerly embracing GenAI — often without understanding its risks....more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today break down the case Clayton Int’l, Inc. v. Neb. Armes Aviation, LLC, where the court ruled on sanctions for hard drive...more
The question of how to handle “modern attachments” has become a major conversation in the ediscovery sphere over the past year. While traditional email attachments consist of a discrete, downloadable file, these "modern...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today dive into a recent court ruling in Riviera v. Costco Wholesale Corp. – where a plaintiff's request for an independent forensic...more
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today dive into Deep Research’s bold prediction: AI could replace paralegals – coming in at #5 on the list of replaceable jobs...more
In their latest Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney and Doug Austin address concerns about AI in the legal field, emphasizing that there is no need for fear.
Drawing from Craig Ball’s publication, Practical Uses for AI...more
The question of how to handle “modern attachments” has become a hot topic that’s swept the ediscovery landscape over the past year. Major litigation involving Uber Technologies has led to extensive conversations on how to...more
Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means “first, do no harm.” This principle is commonly taught in healthcare. In fact, the Hippocratic Oath, taken by doctors, promises they will abstain from doing harm to their...more
On eDiscovery Today, I engaged in a follow up discussion on my TAR series (published in two parts here and here and republished in one part here) with Dr. Jeremy Pickens, Principal Data Scientist at OpenText, who is friend...more
This is a fun and interesting case covered by one of my all-time favorite bloggers, Chris Dale, on his excellent eDisclosure Information Project blog. Here is a brief summary of the case and the eDisclosure implications....more
Purchasing Resources-
When I said last time that the first 70+ pages is mostly dedicated to educational resources, that includes resources on the market, a procurement approach that can be used to select vendors and...more
5/12/2022
/ Best Practices ,
Data Collection ,
Disclosure ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Email ,
Information Technology ,
Procurement Guidelines ,
Software ,
Technology ,
Technology-Assisted Review ,
UK
Last week on eDiscovery Today, I covered Andrew Haslam’s annual eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide, which was published last week on Rob Robinson’s ComplexDiscovery site here. As you can imagine, it’s difficult to cover a...more
5/11/2022
/ Discovery ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Information Governance ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Software ,
Trial Preparation
Last time, I discussed one of our favorite judges to cover on the EDRM monthly case law webinar: Illinois Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole, who pulls no punches when it comes to how he views lack of cooperation and other...more
5/6/2022
/ Bad Faith ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Depositions ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Failure to Cooperate ,
Judicial Intervention ,
Motion to Compel ,
Remote Depositions ,
Search Terms ,
Witnesses