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Who Will Find Hidden e-Evidence In CT Court Cases?
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The Protective Order Button?
Watch For Interesting Arguments On Those Protective Order Requests
By BILL MURRAY
With Andy Thibault
Excerpts:
“I don’t think the judges know a lot — even the ones who write the opinions,” attorney Julia Brickell of Columbia University told the New Haven Bar Association last month.
Brickell, a former vice president and deputy general counsel for Philip Morris USA, runs an automated document review firm in New York. She said the costs of electronic discovery — if not managed properly — can be wildly disproportionate to the value of a case ...
“The new rules shine a light on electronic data and make it clear it is a fair subject for thorough discovery,” said lawyer Alinor Sterling of the Bridgeport firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder. “It’s my job as a lawyer to persuade the judges as to why I am entitled to certain data.”
... One potentially big loophole is Sec. 13-14, which allows judges to excuse the “loss” of electronically stored information “as the result of the routine, good-faith operation of a system or process in the absence of a showing of intentional actions designed to avoid known preservation obligations.”
Qualified computer operatives could easily present a good-faith showing while hiding information in a series of widely-divergent databases ...
Bill Murray is president of EdocMasters LLC, a company that takes the mystery out of e-documentation for the legal industry. Andy Thibault, author of books including Law & Justice In Everyday Life, blogs at The Cool Justice Report, http://cooljustice.blogspot.com/
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Murray's Short Bio:
Bill Murray is a self taught forensic computer technician.
He has more than 30 years experience with computers. At 16 he wrote -- with the help of a teacher at his high school -- the senior class textbook on computer technology. Later, he was old enough to take his own class.
Bill has worked in a variety disciplines including software development, administration, security and desktop support in the manufacturing, banking, investment insurance, medical and legal industries. He was a pioneer in the computer compact disk retail market.
He is president of EdocMasters LLC, a company that takes the mystery out of e documentation for the legal industry.
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