In Episode 141, Kelly Twigger discusses the latest decision on hyperlinked files in which the court undertook, for the first time, a discussion and analysis of the issues of versioning and whether hyperlinked files are attachments and provided language for the parties to govern the issue in the case. In re Uber Techs., Inc. Passenger Sexual Assault Litig., 2024 WL 1772832 (N.D. Cal. 2024). Introduction Welcome to this week’s episode of our Case of the Week series brought to you by eDiscovery Assistant in partnership with ACEDS. My name is Kelly Twigger. I am the CEO and founder at eDiscovery A ..read more

eDiscovery Assistant appoints legaltech sales veteran to oversee sales and business development to further accelerate growth. BOULDER, COLORADO, April 25, 2024- eDiscovery Assistant, the exclusive ediscovery case law database and knowledge center for litigators and legal professionals, today announced the appointment of Mike Renderman as Vice President of Sales. In this role, Renderman will spearhead the company’s sales strategy and lead the sales organization to drive revenue growth. Renderman brings over a decade of experience in the legal technology industry, having held sales leadership ro ..read more

In Episode 140, Kelly Twigger reviews the District Court’s decision and discusses why the Court found spoliation of video evidence with intent to deprive, even when the restaurant preserved evidence of the plaintiff’s fall in Nagy v. Outback Steakhouse, 2024 WL 712156 (D.N.J. 2024). Introduction Welcome to this week’s episode of our Case of the Week series brought to you by eDiscovery Assistant in partnership with ACEDS. My name is Kelly Twigger. I am the CEO and founder at eDiscovery Assistant, your GPS for ediscovery knowledge and education. Thanks so much for joining me today. A couple of a ..read more

In Episode 139, Kelly Twigger discusses how fabricated video led to a dismissal as a sanction under the court’s inherent authority and what you need to be on the look out for as we wade into deepfakes in AI in Frazier v. Se. Ga. Health Sys., Inc., 2024 WL 889994 (S.D. Ga. 2024). Introduction Welcome to this week’s episode of our Case of the Week series brought to you by eDiscovery Assistant in partnership with ACEDS. My name is Kelly Twigger. I am the CEO and founder at eDiscovery Assistant, your GPS for ediscovery knowledge and education. Thanks so much for joining me today. If you haven’t ye ..read more

If you’re a current eDiscovery Assistant user, you already know the value of our proprietary Issue Tag structure applied to all of the content across the platform, and how they let you drill down into case law, rules, checklists and forms and our Academy very quickly. You may also know that our content teams meet weekly to discuss the addition of new Issue Tags and whether adding them will assist on helping our users get to developing ediscovery issues in a few clicks. The question we ask when adding Issue Tags is “Will adding this Issue allow a user to find what they are looking for?” Sometim ..read more

In Episode 138, Kelly Twigger discusses why the Court ordered Uber to provide information about its legal hold process, sources of ESI and steps taken to preserve ESI, a decision that re-emphasizes a party’s obligations under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and local court checklists in Doe LS 340 v. Uber Techs., Inc., 2024 WL 107929 (N.D. Cal. 2024). Introduction Welcome to this week’s episode of our Case of the Week series brought to you by eDiscovery Assistant in partnership with ACEDS. My name is Kelly Twigger. I am the CEO and founder at eDiscovery Assistant, your GPS for ediscovery ..read more

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In Episode 137, Kelly Twigger discusses discuss how a party waived its objections to proposed discovery through its use of general or boilerplate objections in the Delaware Chancery Court in Bocock v. Innovate Corp., 2023 WL 8453525 (Del. Ch. 2023). Introduction Welcome to this week’s Case of the Week series brought to you by eDiscovery Assistant in partnership with ACEDS. My name is Kelly Twigger. I am the CEO and founder at eDiscovery Assistant, your GPS for ediscovery knowledge and education. Thanks so much for joining me today. Each week on the Case of the Week I choose a recent decis ..read more

The best source of knowledge on how to handle ediscovery issues comes from the thousands of case law decisions issued each year since 2003. There’s no question that for a legal professional, staying up to speed on ediscovery is not an easy task. From the ever-growing volume of cases to the increasing use of platforms like Slack and Teams, to the issue of hyperlinked files, the scope of electronically stored information is expanding exponentially. To address that issue, we’ve developed our latest feature — called Dynamic Cite Lists — that is designed to help our users stay on top of the case la ..read more

In Episode 136, Kelly Twigger discusses whether an FRE 502(d) order is appropriate to allow a party to intentionally disclose privilege materials, and how one party’s correspondence about the date of the duty to preserve arose waived privilege as to communications regarding the planning and implementation of preservation and issuing legal holds in Lubrizol Corp. v. IBM Corp., 2024 WL 941686 (N.D. Ohio 2024). Introduction Welcome to this week’s Case of the Week series brought to you by eDiscovery Assistant in partnership with ACEDS. My name is Kelly Twigger. I am the CEO and founder at eDiscove ..read more