Riding the (once-trendy) coattails of the term “metrosexual,” there’s a new modern description for people — including lawyers — obsessed with all things digital: “datasexual.” “The datasexual looks a lot like you and me, but what’s different is their preoccupation…

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Technologist Andrew Chow, JD

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. It’s happened: In a landmark e-discovery ruling, a federal judge has explicitly approved of computer-assisted review, also known as predictive coding (the use…

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Technologist Andrew Chow, JD

LegalTech 2012 has officially ended. The three-day conference, held at the New York Hilton, offered up opportunities for tech-savvy lawyers to network and learn. Thomson Reuters, FindLaw’s parent company, had a booth at Legal Tech. FindLaw’s corporate sales consultant Aaron…

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Technologist Cynthia Hsu, Esq.

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet. Electronic discovery can be time-consuming, burdensome and expensive. Indeed, at times, e-discovery can be the tail that wags the litigation dog. As…

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What do you know about the role of structured data in e-discovery? What many attorneys do not realize is that structured data can be a great way to find information during the discovery process. Structured data is data that resides…

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Technologist Cynthia Hsu

E-discovery. The very word can mean salvation for lawyers who are tired of dredging through thousands of pages of hard copy documents during the lengthy, time-consuming discovery process. But, e-discovery is not as simple as it seems.Sanctions for e-discovery violations…

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Technologist Cynthia Hsu

Technology research firm Gartner has ventured into the world of litigation, releasing its first ever e-Discovery Magic Quadrant, an evaluation of 24 of the top vendors touting e-Discovery solutions. A graphical representation of each firm’s relative position in today’s market,…

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Technologist Stephanie Rabiner

A litigant may waive privilege when an inadvertent disclosure is made as a result of a failure to check a production database created by an e-Discovery vendor prior to its going live. In other words, attorneys who fail to double-check…

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Technologist Stephanie Rabiner

In early June, a lawsuit accused mega-firm McDermott Will and Emery of e-Discovery malpractice, an allegation that stems from the firm’s reported failure to supervise off-site staff attorneys, which in turn led to the production of nearly 4,000 privileged documents….

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Technologist Stephanie Rabiner

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet. Generally, when responding to discovery production demands, including the production of electronic information, the responding party in US litigation must pay the…

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Technologist Adam Ramirez