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District Court Allows Taxation of Costs Related to Electronic Discovery : Electronic Discovery Law

October 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In re Aspartame Antitrust Litig., No. 2:06-CV-1732-LDD, 2011 WL 4793239 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 5, 2011)

In this case, the court addressed plaintiffs’ motion to deny or reduce defendants’ bill of costs, and in particular their objections to the costs related to electronic discovery.  Recognizing that “taxing e-discovery is a new area of law where courts have diverged in their approaches,” the court denied plaintiff’s motion as to many of the costs at issue but did disallow or reduce some costs, including those incurred for the convenience of counsel.

“A court may tax ‘fees for printed or electronically recorded transcripts necessarily obtained for use in the case’ and ‘fees for exemplification and the costs of making copies of any materials where the copies are necessarily obtained for use in the case,’ as well as other specifically enumerated fees” pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1902(2) and (4).  In the present case, plaintiffs objected to many of the allowed costs, including those related to e-discovery.

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iReview Global: One Platform for Early Data Assessment and Full Linear Review

October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The iReview Early Data Assessment system processes and ingests electronic data for use within web-enabled review module, providing the client robust capabilities to determine the relevancy of the provided data set.  The unique design of the Preview System allows Global EDD Group the ability to provide the client with predicable pricing, detailed data analysis, reduced review expense, streamlined work flow and increased efficiencies.

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  • Dynamic Full Text and Concept Searching
  • Advanced Clustering of Search Results
  • Batch Tagging and Categorization
  • TIFF On-The-Fly for Redaction
  • Robust Reporting
  • Full Production Module
  • Seamless Migration to Full Review System

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  • Reduced Full Review Costs
  • One Platform with Similar Interfaces for Preview and Full Review
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E-Discovery: Cutting costs with targeted collections | InsideCounsel.com

August 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Getting to what’s real as soon as possible is one of the best ways to save money in e-discovery. Targeted collections let inside counsel reduce hosting charges, attorney review and production costs by identifying the most important data before collection begins.

Real targeted collections combine talent and tools to reduce the amount of data that needs to be reviewed for production. A good targeted collection plan will:

Identify the key custodians who have responsive data

Interview those custodians to find where the data is stored

Involve the custodians in creating and testing search terms to find responsive documents and data

The Targeted Collection v. the “Data Grab”

Making full forensic images of all custodians’ hard drives—and sometimes even email servers—is a common approach to managing document collections in e-discovery. Parties that use this method collect a large volume of data, knowing up front that some of it is non-responsive. They then use search terms and other e-discovery filters to limit the responsive data set.

But collections that just rely on the use of e-discovery tools and search terms to create the data set for use during attorney review and production may have problems and could be extremely costly.

Collecting everything off hard drives and servers increases attorney review and production costs. It also increases the chance of accidental production of privileged information or documents not related to the litigation. And it leaves parties open to possible claims of document dumping during production.

Many of the problems have to do with the limitations of a search-word-only approach to document collection. Search terms are not an exact science and can be over-broad or too restrictive. They cannot be relied on to find the same documents that an employee could easily identify as likely responsive during a targeted collection.

Running keyword searches also requires some level of processing or outside software. This adds immediate additional costs to “run” the search terms against what is probably a very large data set.

Finally, most people try to avoid missing documents and end-up being over-inclusive during the search term cull—and the bigger data set that results again means more costs for attorney review.

Targeted collections can solve many of these potential problems and greatly reduce costs. By limiting the size of the data set from the beginning, targeted collections save money by requiring less attorney review time.

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US approves Blackberry PlayBook for federal government worker use – The China Post

July 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Blackberry’s PlayBook electronic tablet has been approved for use in all U.S. federal government agencies, becoming the first tablet to get certified, developer Research in Motion (RIM) said Thursday.

The Waterloo, Canada-based RIM said its PlayBook, which has an 18-centimeter (seven-inch) high definition screen, received Federal Information Processing Standard certification, which is delivered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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Study: Human Memory Increasingly Depending on the ‘Cloud’ – International Business Times

July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Internet use — specifically search engines and online databases — is changing human memory.

This is the central finding of “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips” by Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, and Daniel M. Wegner, published online on Thursday on the website of Science Magazine (a publication of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS).

Dr. Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia, led the research using four discrete experiments into how human beings utilize memory differently when computers are involved.

“The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger,” begins the abstract. “No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things we want. We can ‘Google’ the old classmate, find articles online, or look up the actor who was on the tip of our tongue.”

“The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it. The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves.”

via Study: Human Memory Increasingly Depending on the ‘Cloud’ – International Business Times.

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SharePoint 2010 Used Mainly for Collaboration; Enterprise Content Management to Grow, AIIM Says

June 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Doug Miles, head of the AIIM Market Intelligence Division, has been thinking along the same lines, and, through AIIM, has published research that attempts to answer some of those questions.

Using SharePoint for ECM. How well is it meeting expectations? surveyed 674 members of the AIIM community in April and May this year.

 

He says SharePoint itself has developed since its first iteration into a solution that does just about everything for intranets, to enterprise collaboration, to business intelligence and business process management with an adoption rate of 60% to 70%, he says. Some figures that are worth noting about SharePoint in the enterprise include:

Only 8% of SharePoint users have upgraded to 2010 version so far; 21% are deploying 2010 as a first use.

36% say they have SharePoint “in use across the enterprise for content management.” Included are 11% with no other content systems; 19% running unconnected ECM/DM/RM systems

A quarter consider their stored content in SharePoint to be doubling every two years or less and 5% have over 10TB of data already.

Collaboration and intranet are the most widely used application areas, then document management and search.

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Microsoft: ‘You can get your data onto Azure for free!’ • The Register

June 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Microsoft has announced that beginning on July 1, all data transfers onto its Microsoft Azure cloud will be free.

This will apply to both “peak” and “off-peak” times, the company said with a Wednesday morning blog post.

The change is designed to encourage developers to move large quantities of their own data onto Microsoft’s service, but it will also benefit Azure application sthat receive large amounts of data from outside sources.

Clearly, Microsoft is determined to expand the use of Azure. Earlier this week, when we spoke to Microsoft’s Windows Azure general manager Doug Hauger, he made a point of saying that eventually all computing infrastructure will “move to the cloud”. Though he said that use of the service has exceeded Microsoft’s targets, anecdotal evidence suggests that Azure doesn’t have the sort of developer mind share enjoyed by Amazon and other cloud services.

Free is always good. But it should be noted that out-bound Azure data transfers are not free. Getting your data in costs nothing. But you’ll need some cash to get it off.

Azure is Microsoft’s “platform cloud”, an online service for building, deploying, and readily scaling applications. A platform cloud – aka platform-as-a-service – operates at a higher level than an infrastructure cloud a la Amazon EC2, letting developers build applications without juggling virtual machines and other raw infrastructure resources.

via Microsoft: ‘You can get your data onto Azure for free!’ • The Register.

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International Cooperation & Collaboration on Asset Forfeiture « USDOJ: Justice Blog

June 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It is becoming increasingly common for criminals to commit their crimes in one country and launder illicit proceeds in another.  Law enforcement partners from around the globe must work together to locate and forfeit the proceeds of these criminal activities, increasing the need for cooperation and collaboration.

To foster this cooperation and collaboration, forfeiture experts from the United States and Latin American countries are gathering in Lima, Peru, to discuss the use of asset forfeiture to fight international crime, including drug cartel operations in Latin America. The event is hosted by the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, in partnership with the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) of the U.S. Department of State and the Public Ministry-Fiscalia de la Nacion of Peru.

Many of the countries represented at the conference have successfully investigated and assisted in the restraint and forfeiture of criminal funds related to narcotics trafficking, fraud, smuggling and other serious crimes.  Speakers from Colombia, Mexico and the United States, as well as panelists from Peru, Paraguay, Brazil and Guatemala, will describe their experiences in using asset forfeiture as a tool in combating these types of crimes, including sharing successful investigative techniques and discussing current challenges.

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BBC News – Icann increases web domain suffixes

June 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.

Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.

Icann will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first.

“Icann has opened the internet’s addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination,” said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann.

“No one can predict where this historic decision will take us.”

There will be several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), which could include such addresses as .google, .coke, or even .BBC.

There are currently 22 gTLDs, as well as about 250 country-level domain names such as .uk or .de.

Costly process

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Icann’s senior vice-president, Kurt Pritz explains why the new gTLDs are being created

It will cost $185,000 (£114,000) to apply for the suffixes, and companies would need to show they have a legitimate claim to the name they are buying.

Analysts say it is a price that global giants might be willing to pay – in order to maximise their internet presence.

The money will be used to cover costs incurred by Icann in developing the new gTLDs and employing experts to scrutinise the many thousands of expected applications.

A portion will be set-aside to deal with potential legal actions, raised by parties who fail to get the domains they want.

The vote completes a six-year negotiation process and is the biggest change to the system since .com was first introduced 26 years ago.

Icann said it was beginning a global communications programme to raise awareness of the new domain names.

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Existing Generic TLDs

.com : companies, now broader

.edu : educational institutions

.gov : government institutions

.int : international organisations, e.g. Interpol

.mil : military organisations

.net : networking technologies, now broader

.org : non-profit organisations

.arpa : first ever domain, now technical use

.aero : air travel industry

.biz : business alternative to .com

.coop : co-operatives

.info : information, but open for general use

.museum : museums

.name : personal names – johnsmith.name

.pro : professionals, e.g. doctors

.asia: Asian websites

.cat : Catalan language

.jobs : employment websites

.mobi : mobile phones

.post : postal services

.tel : telecoms

.travel : travel

Source: Icann

Applications will start on 12 January.

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White House: No official gov’t email hacked – BusinessWeek

June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The White House says no official U.S. government email accounts were accessed during what Google alleges was Chinese hacking of its email systems.

Obama spokesman Jay Carney says the FBI is investigating Google’s allegations, but had no comment on whether China was involved. Google says personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, were exposed.

Carney says the administration doesn’t restrict government employees from personal use of Gmail accounts, but directs workers to use government email for official business.

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