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These undertakings require planning, communication, documentation, and collaboration to be successful. I have overseen two significant projects: an electronic discovery production and disaster response and recovery effort. Covering all computers and file cabinets in plastic sheeting. .
To begin to answer that question, let’s take a look at the ethical obligation that lawyers have to be technically competent and the state of technology education for lawyers today. Browning Marean and I spent years trying to begin a law school curriculum that included computereducation with no success. Technical Competence.
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E-discovery luminary and recipient of the Masters Conference Educator of the Year 2016, Mary provides ACEDS and its membership more than a decade of strong credibility and sound leadership within the e-discovery community. Monday, March 26: Craig Ball.
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Austin (no relation) denied the defendant’s motion to overrule the plaintiff’s objections to the defendant’s discovery requests, due to the fact that the plaintiff stated it was withholding documents based on each of the objections. After Metadata Shows Agreement Documents to Be Unreliable, Defendant’s “Hans” are Tied : In Ensing v.
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Kutsomarkos provided pdf versions of documents from the laptop…However, the pdf files scrubbed the metadata from the documents and that metadata should be available on the hard drives…Also, the computer in Garrett was a personal computer, but here the computer was Ms. Kutsomarkos noted Ms. Dixit, her employer.”.
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