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FASB litigation risk disclosure comments due today, 8/8/2008

Not only does a corporation need to come to the table ready to deal in data, they may need to do so after disclosing risk and likelihood of settlement amounts in their financial statements.

Comments may be sent by email to director@fasb.org, File Reference No. 1025-300. By today, 8/8/08.

The transparency would benefit shareholders in one way continue…

Decisions Up Stakes for Managing EDD
This article, from The Legal Intelligencer, looks at recent court decisions which now seem to demand a standard of near perfection from in-house and outside counsel in managing e-discovery. Indeed, courts are showing little patience for preservation, privilege review or production mistakes and are not hesitating to hold parties and their counsel responsible for such mistakes. Read more.... continue…
547,000 and counting
We made it. Thank you for your good wishes and generous contributions. Over $8,000 was raised yesterday for 360,000 meals. We're still counting and reconciling the wildcards and the total will only go up. We were still short at noon and suddenly our phones started ringing and the weblink started singing. Like a team a continue…
500,000 people less hungry by Thursday
I have a request and a challenge for our blackberry enabled, tiny living room we call the ediscovery community. We have the fastest grapevine in the world. Will you help me use our grapevine to feed our hungry neighbors and collectively achieve a huge goal? Sometimes in the electronic discovery world, we get so stressed continue…
Keyword Searches: A Grim Prognosis
Keyword search is deemed "good enough" for identifying responsive electronically stored information; yet when privilege is on the line, lawyers insist on page-by-page review. Continue reading
Minimizing the Risk That E-Discovery Failures Will Create Corporate Liability
Judicial tolerance for shortcomings in e-discovery is on the decline, and litigants, their counsel and e-discovery vendors are facing direct liability for such failures. Read more....
Webcast - Instant Messaging, Preservation and e-Discovery Collection Obligations
July 29 - 1:00 EST - Instant messaging presents a new set of technical and legal issues in the discovery process, much like e-mail did a few years ago. Ronni Solomon, Counsel, King & Spalding, will discuss preservation best practices for IM use, and for preservation and collection of IM and related files during discovery. continue…
Judge Grimm?s decision in Victor Stanley case
Judge Grimm's decision in the Victor Stanley case has a chilling effect on lawyers who craft their own key word searches, absent advice from experts who can provide quality assurance and quality control. Read Craig Ball's article about it (registration required).
Webcast - Career Opportunities in e-Discovery
Tuesday, July 22 - 1:00 PM EST - Mary Mack will discuss new and emerging roles shaped by the e-discovery explosion for legal, records management, compliance and IT professionals. Aslo: Corporate trends around management and control of the e-discovery process; training opportunities and education for e-discovery response team members. Click here for more info.
Email preservation roach motels
Preservation and records management are some of the key processes on the left-hand side of the EDRM lifecycle. There are plenty of systems that strongly support this article's description of the preservation problem in many of today's legacy email archiving installations. "Email Archives, Are they an Email Roach Motel?" nails the underlying business assumptions in place continue…

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