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Digital Due Diligence: What Prospects and Referrals Really See When They Research Your Firm

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Here’s a reality check that might sting a little: the last thing a referred client does before contacting you isn’t pick up the phone—it’s fire up Google. That warm referral from your best client? It comes with a digital...more

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If You’ve Ever Asked Your Paralegal to Screenshot a Facebook Profile... Please Read This

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Most great attorneys didn’t get where they are alone. While the best attorneys are no doubt talented and deserving, most of them become so because they have a strong support network, hard at work in the background. And...more

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The Fragility of Chain of Custody in the Era of Digital Evidence

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“Chain of custody” is a familiar concept for anyone working in law enforcement, legal practice, or investigations. It’s a foundational part of proving that evidence presented in court is authentic, unaltered, and admissible....more

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How Social Media Evidence Is Reshaping Family Law

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The ubiquity of social media in our world is impossible to ignore. Over 5 billion people use social media globally in 2025, representing more than 60% of the world’s population....more

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What Is a JSON File? And What Role Does It Play in eDiscovery?

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If you’re involved in eDiscovery in any way, you’ve undoubtedly come across JSON files. These files increasingly act as the way in which we access and interact with digital evidence—especially as the limitations of screenshot...more

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What Is Technology Assisted Review (TAR)?

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In a world where more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, the eDiscovery process isn’t only complex and time-consuming, but it can be extremely costly as well....more

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Search Term Translation for eDiscovery: The Art & Science of Getting the ‘Technical Translation’ Right

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When it comes to eDiscovery, term translation isn't just about converting words from one language into another. It's a highly specialized process that requires a nuanced understanding of both linguistics and technical search...more

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This Week in eDiscovery: What to Know About the Stored Communications Act | Annual General Counsel Report

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of February 16-22. Here’s what’s...more

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Can Parties Redact Text Messages for Relevance in Discovery?

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In today's fast-paced litigation landscape, electronically stored information (ESI) plays a critical role in shaping legal strategies and outcomes. Among the myriad sources of ESI, text messages have emerged as a critical...more

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Privilege Log, Privilege Log — It’s All About the Description

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A privilege log is the absolute bane of an attorney’s existence. I don’t mean it isn’t important and a critical component of discovery, but the level of planning, analysis and detail required to complete such a log is...more

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Social Media Evidence Spoliation and Preservation

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There are few better cases that illustrate the risks of social media spoliation than Lester v. Allied Concrete Company....more

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This Week in eDiscovery: In-House Counsel | Sequestered Documents

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of October 21-27. Here’s what’s...more

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When Fake Electronic Evidence Is Used in Court

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With the digital realm increasingly shaping both our personal and professional lives, the rise of electronic evidence in legal cases was inevitable. But as technology advances, so do the methods for creating fake digital...more

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Cracking the Code on Modern Attachments in eDiscovery

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Modern attachments, in Google Workspaces and Microsoft Office, have long posed significant challenges in eDiscovery. They are not actual files attached to an email or message but are links pointing to files stored elsewhere....more

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Want to Improve Credibility? Embrace Your Witness’s Humanity

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In a commercial dispute involving allegations against a manufacturing plant, plaintiff’s counsel was cross-examining a plant manager....more

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Spoliation, Sanctions, and Staying Social Media Savvy

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Social media has changed the way we share ideas, the way we get our news, the way we make purchases, and the way we conceptualize ourselves and our community. It has changed the way we keep in touch with our friends and...more

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Winning Cases on Legal Issues Before and During Trial | Texas Appellate Law Podcast

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As civil trials become more expensive and less frequent, proactive attorneys should look for ways to streamline or end their cases before trial. Luckily, both Texas statutes and court rules provide some helpful tools. In this...more

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Mitigating Chain of Custody Risks with Digital Evidence

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If you’re an attorney, a paralegal, an investigator, a law enforcement officer, or even if you just watch a lot of legal dramas on television, you’re likely familiar with the term “chain of custody”....more

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8 Reasons Team Collaboration Tools Have Completely Changed eDiscovery

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The sudden mass transition to remote work in 2020 catalyzed an unprecedented reliance on team collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Workplace by Meta. Years later, we’re still grappling with this vast,...more

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60 Days Before Trial: Ready, Set, Go!

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After months of hard work, countless hours poring over exhibits and documents, and late nights at the office, your case is headed to court. You are confident that you will be ready when the time comes, but as the date of...more

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Motions in Limine: An Update on Uses, Abuses, and Pitfalls

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Motions in limine (“on or at the threshold” or “in the beginning”) can be a useful tool in a trial lawyer’s hands. Used strategically and prophylactically, they can “eliminate the noise surrounding” a trial by preventing an...more

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How to Best Connect Trial Evidence and Witness Testimony to Case Themes

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It is not unusual to hear questions or comments similar to the following from a member of a trial team. “I get all this about ‘themes’ and, of course, we have them, but what do they have to do with all the evidence we need to...more

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Searching Audio and Video Files: Are You Adequately Assessing Their Relevancy to Your Cases?

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The COVID-19 pandemic augmented our increasingly virtual world. As such, the plethora of data at our fingertips has changed. Business Insider reported that Zoom meeting participants rose from 10 million in December 2019 to...more

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The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In eDiscovery

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Editor’s Note: As an industry leader in the use of artificial intelligence to empower cyber discovery and legal discovery efforts, HaystackID is excited to share this new information paper from the EDRM and to highlight the...more

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Court Gives Guidance On Procedure For Pursuing “Tort Of Another” Damages

In 1963, the California Supreme Court adopted the “tort of another” doctrine in the seminal case Prentice v. North American Title Guaranty Corporation  (1963) 59 Cal.2d 618.  According to the doctrine, any party who is...more

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