Barrister Gordon Exall is once again my source for a judgment about disclosure in the High Court of England and Wales. The case is Ayannuga & Ors v One Shot Products Ltd and the judgment was delivered on 1 November … Continue reading →
Today, Doug Austin‘s splendid eDiscoveryToday blog featured O’Donnell/Salvatori Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., No. C20-882-MLP (W.D. Wash. Oct. 1, 2021), where a …Continue reading →
A US case was struck out, and the plaintiff and his lawyers suffered financial sanctions, after clever experts spotted that the emoji on a screenshot of a text was not the one in use on the date of the alleged … Continue reading →
A casual observer of US discovery would conclude that the destruction of documents and data is a national pastime, with immense effort devoted both to deleting documents and to trying to prove that someone else has done so. To an … Continue read…
As a 30(b)(6) witness for some of my clients, I follow eDiscovery spoliation cases closely. Most of them have little or no ‘teeth’ when a party has even attempted to meet their obligations. It is nice to see a magistrate drop the hammer on a party who appears to have consistently and deliberately tried to […]
ESI GUIDE THROWBACK – Introducing ESI Survival Guide
After preparing the new ESI Survival Guide for its 2021 release, I ran across some of the videos that I…