Attorneys are long accustomed to mining email for evidence. And recordings, text messages and location data from cellphones have increasingly played an important role in both criminal and civil trials. But now lawyers have to consider whether the smartwatches on ...

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D4 LLC, a national provider of managed data and discovery services to law firms and corporations, will host a complimentary webinar on April 30, at 1 p.m. Attendees will learn how to justify an e-discovery managed services agreement for law ...

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, a national law firm with more than 500 lawyers, has announced a partnership with D4, a provider of e-discovery solutions for managed services through its eNtrust Managed Services Platform. Under the terms of the agreement, ...

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Lawyers still making their way along the learning curve of social media evidence may struggle to find guidance from court opinions. But two recent decisions with different results offer some clues on how to narrowly focus a discovery request to ...

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Hilary Palombo, vice president of sales and managing partner of Avalon’s Buffalo branch, has recently achieved status as a Relativity Certified Sales Professional. Avalon provides litigation support services to law firms, corporations and government agencies. Its partner, kCura, developers of ...

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While the sheer amount of electronically stored information continues to grow, the cases in which it appears are sometimes small. For lawyers seeking solutions for dealing with electronic discovery in cases without terabytes of data, the American Bar Association Law ...

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The future is here. A recent decision from the Southern District of New York may ease the reluctance of attorneys to use computer-assisted coding in the discovery process. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck, of the U.S. District Court for ...

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D4 LLC, a national firm providing litigation support and e-discovery services to law firms and corporate law departments, has aquired Detroit Legal Imaging. D4, which has an office in Rochester, will serve law firms and corporate clients in the Detroit ...

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Litigation support and electronic discovery services company D4 has hosted a Web-based electronic discovery platform for area law firms and corporate clients for several years, and is now poised to provide that service to Canadian clients. “Canada has a similar ...

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Navigating through the ever-changing waters of e-discovery is not only challenging, but can be costly for the novice and uninformed. To help practitioners through the process more efficiently, the New York State Bar Association has published a free online guide ...

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As more and more individuals and businesses participate in social media, the amount of litigation-related information on sites like Facebook and Twitter is rising. For lawyers, these sites can be an electronic discovery gold mine — or they can be the downfall of a case.

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A federal judge’s decision to withdraw a decisive e-discovery ruling she issued earlier this year muddies the waters with regard to the production of metadata and other electronic evidence in complex civil litigation, according to local practitioners familiar with the case.

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