As the digital age steamrolls forward, the exchange of sensitive personal information has become an intractable and necessary part of life. For the vast majority of humanity, not a day goes by without some exchange of digitized personal information. In ...

Tagged with: eDiscovery Update John Larimer

Dear John, We are third-year law students at Syracuse University. We take class notes on laptops, pay bills online and get bank statements delivered electronically. None of us can remember the last time we actually printed something out on paper. ...

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Dear John, My client recently became aware of a potential lawsuit and promptly issued a litigation hold. My client also held training sessions to ensure compliance with the hold. However, I suspect that one of the senior employees subject to ...

Tagged with: eDiscovery Update John Larimer

Dear John, As a football fan and a newly admitted attorney, I have been following the Colin Kaepernick controversy with great interest. I read recently that as part of Kaeperrnick’s grievance against the NFL, team owners and league executives, who ...

Tagged with: eDiscovery Update John Larimer

Dear John, I have a case in federal court in the early stages of discovery. My client possesses a significant amount of electronic data that I know I will need to produce. I have just received opposing counsel’s document demands ...

Tagged with: eDiscovery Update John Larimer

Dear John, I have a new case in federal court and I anticipate that both parties will need to sift through a high volume of electronically stored information (“ESI”) for potentially relevant documents. Opposing counsel wants the parties to take ...

Tagged with: eDiscovery Update John Larimer

John D. Larimer, the founder and managing attorney of Larimer Law, is not your typical veteran lawyer, set in his ways and content to use what methods have worked before. By his own admission, he tends to get on a ...

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One of the coolest gadgets that made it down my chimney this Christmas was the Amazon Echo. You’re not familiar with the Echo? The Echo is billed as a personal digital assistant. Basically it’s a Bluetooth-enabled speaker that is also ...

Tagged with: amazon eDiscovery Update Peter Coons

Two recent cases in two different courts dealt with the issue of technology assisted review (“TAR”) and its use in discovery. At issue in each case was the plaintiff’s desire for defendants to use TAR instead of relying on search ...

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Discovery is not a game of “Go Fish.” To some extent it’s like playing an open hand of poker or maybe, Texas Hold’em. There is openness to the process. After a proper request, you show me your evidence and I ...

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Last week I travelled to Seattle to attend a Microsoft conference where the company announced upcoming enhancements to Office 365. Besides the cool factor of getting to visit the headquarters of the largest software company on Earth, I was also ...

Tagged with: eDiscovery Update Peter Coons

A recent employment discrimination matter out of the S.D. of Indiana (Appler v. Mead Johnson & Co., LLC) involved the discovery of social media evidence. That’s not unique, but what is thought-provoking is the court’s decision to allow the discovery ...

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