Key Discovery Points: Exciting eDiscovery Sessions at ILTACON 2025!
Key Discovery Points: Detecting AI is Difficult and Tricky!
Key Discovery Points: ESI Protocol Objection Denial Party
Key Discovery Points: Be a Team Player When It Comes to Production
From OCR to AI The Future of Media and Image Analysis in eDiscovery
AI in eDiscovery Today: An Open Conversation
Key Discovery Points: A Judicial Approach to Handling AI-Generated Evidence
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar
Key Discovery Points: Petty Finger Pointing Over Search Terms Results in Wasted Time
Key Discovery Points: Do Your Best to Avoid Discovery Shenanigans!
Key Discovery Points: Be Willing to Agree and Compromise When It Comes to Hyperlinks
Navigating the Maze: eDiscovery Essentials for Employers — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Harnessing the Power of eDiscovery: The Revolution of AI and Technology in Litigation and Investigations - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Key Discovery Points: Don’t Rush in as an AI Fool!
Key Discovery Points: If You Dispose of Relevant Hard Drives You Will Face (Some) Consequences
Key Discovery Point: Collecting Hyperlinked File Versions – Contemporaneous or “As Sent”?
Key Discovery Points: Timing is Mostly Everything in eDiscovery
Key Discovery Points: AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals… But Not So Fast!
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Will you be strolling through the streets of Midtown Manhattan later this month, surrounded by a sea of legal tech aficionados? Or are you missing out on the action of Law.com’s Legalweek this year? No matter where you’ll be,...more
Let’s face it: In this digital age, using technology in your legal practice is basically a given. And software fees become another overhead cost that can diminish the profitability of your firm. But that doesn’t have to be...more
9/2/2024 BatchGuru – Transform Metadata in Relativity - BatchGuru from vdiscovery and Nikolai Pozdniakov’s Hashtaglegal, is a set of tools to be used in a Relativity workspace which helps you easily transform metadata in...more
Regardless of how much discovery and litigation change, paralegals remain a central component to the success of any team, matter, or case. Honing their skills and consistently developing them is a hallmark of litigation...more
The so-called “modern attachments” found in emails, collaboration software platforms like Slack and MS Teams, and other digital formats are presenting interesting and frustrating challenges for legal professionals in terms of...more
Depositions are essential to gaining a full understanding of a case, and the resulting transcripts are a key building block of any winning argument. But between managing several transcript and video files, adding notes and...more
August 8, 2023: Detect Whether or Not Text Was Generated by AI - It’s becoming more and more common to come across text on the internet which appears as though it may have been written by AI. You may question the...more
July 1, 2023: Javascript to Split PDF Into 5 Page Segments and Save & Rename - You can use javascript code in Adobe Acrobat to extract set ranges of pages from a PDF file and then save and rename each extracted PDF range...more
In our previous article, we introduced the ACEDS Summer Sale. We highlighted the benefits of joining ACEDS, enrolling in training, and pursuing certification in e-discovery. We want to delve deeper into why professionals in...more
June 3, 2023 – Hunting External Links - Tonight I used the below vba code posted here by Domenic to successfully generate a list of each cell in a workbook which contained a link to an outside Excel file. This code is...more
May 6, 2023 – Finding Abandoned Families in Active Learning Projects - In an Active Learning project if a reviewer, while in the course of reviewing a family of documents for a prioritized review, is taken off a project,...more
April 7, 2023 – Stopping Excel From Rounding off Long Numbers During Import - The Tip of the Night for March 24, 2023, warned about Excel’s tendency to cut off numbers with multiple decimal places. Excel will also round...more
Litigation in our modern digital age often forces legal teams to sift through a mountain of electronic data to find potential evidence. Early Data Assessment can reduce this mass of data and give legal teams valuable insight...more
March 4, 2023 – Searching for Emojis in Relativity - A Relativity admin can make it possible to search for emojis in a Relativity workspace. A dtSearch index can be edited to include a special code that will enable the...more
2/4/2023: Regular Expression Search to Get the Line Count in a Text File - Running the regular expression search: \S+\s*$ . . . in a text editor like NotePad++ will generate a count of the number of non-empty lines in...more
January 1, 2023—Searching Inside an Excel Cell for One of Multiple Strings - You can use an Excel formula to check to see when any one of multiple values appears in the contents of a cell. ...more
December 4, 2022 – S.D. Cal.: Request for Production from Backup Tapes Denied - In 2015, Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo, in United States ex rel. Carter v. Bridgepoint Educ., Inc., 305 F.R.D. 225 (S.D. Cal. 2015), ruled...more
10/8/2022: Printer Settings on Local Computer Carry Over to VMWare - When you send a job to a printer not on your office network from inside VMWare or another VPN, you may not see all of the options which should be...more
9/3/2022 – LINE CONDITIONERS - Most people will have a used a power strip with a surge protector at some point – this will shut off an electrical current when the power becomes too high. If you are setting up...more
August 6, 2022 – Powershell Script to Get the File Size of Files in Multiple Locations - You can run a simple PowerShell script to get the file size of files saved in various locations on a network....more
7/1/2022: Fixing Excel Links Repointed to C drive - If you find that Excel spreadsheets for which you have added hyperlinks to a network drive using the HYPERLINK formula are inexplicably repointed to the users appdata...more