Just recently did an update of my Internet of Things ( IoT ) Resources Library page.
Highlights include links to four items published by NIST.
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Email’s Nine Lives
Just posted an updated version of my “Nine Lives of Email” list, which I wrote in 2007.
The original impetus was this AP article in which I had been quoted about missing White House emails during George W. Bush’s administration. See Anick Jesdanun, “White House e-mail recovery not trivial“, AP, April 2007. …
Technology Assisted Review (TAR) / Predictive Coding — New Decision
Technology Assisted Review (TAR) / Predictive Coding — New Decision
Thanks to Hon. (Ret.) Andrew J. Peck, now Senior Counsel at DLA Piper, I just learned of a hot-off-the-presses (yesterday) Technology Assisted Review decision by the Utah federal district court.
For a quote from, and link to, the Entrata decision, check out the recent updates…
EU GDPR eDiscovery — Top Ten Tips for Litigators
EU GDPR eDiscovery — Top Ten Tips for Litigators
by Robert Brownstone and Tyler Newby (with thanks to Shannon Turner and Sandra Pomeroy)
NOT LEGAL ADVICE. This non-exhaustive Letterman-style list is to help you spot the GDPR’s potential impacts on data collection and production in litigation involving EU persons
Overview (10. – 6.)
10. The European…
Exterro eDiscovery Guide — Brownstone Featured in Snippet
Hi all. Exterro has recently published what looks like a fine overview of the eDiscovery process, “The Basics of E-Discovery Guide.” It describes a wide range of topics in easily digestible chunks.
Sprinkled throughout are quotes from various folks in the eDiscovery field. Yours truly is one of those people. My snippet is at the…
TAR / Predictive Coding Library and Resources Page — Both Updated
Check out the recent updates to this site’s TAR / Predictive Coding Library and Resources pages.
ESI & eDiscovery FRCP Changes @ 12/1/15 — While You Were Leftover-Eating

Introduction Now that you’ve likely had your fill of turkey sandwiches, turkey salad, turkey soup and the like, there is a new development on which to focus. On midnight December 1, 2015 the eDiscovery-related Federal Rules of Civil Procedure changed for the first time since their adoption exactly nine years ago. The changes fall into three…
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Criminal Prosecutions — a Library
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Criminal Prosecutions — a Library
Check out the new SOX Obstruction of Justice Resources Page now live at <http://www.itlawtoday.com/sarbanes-oxley-sox-criminal-prosecutions-a-library/>.
Let me know of additional links to other statutes, decisions, articles, etc.
And let’s be careful out there . . . . .
Technology Assisted Review ( TAR ) — Another Peck Decision
Check out the following items issued this week by Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck in Rio Tinto PLC v. Vale S.A., No. 14 Civ. 3042 (RMB) (AJP) (S.D.N.Y):
- Opinion & Order (3/3/15) [“Predictive Coding . . . a.k.a. Technology Assisted Review (TAR) – Da Silva Moore Revisited”]
- Stipulation and Order re: Use of Predictive Coding in
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Electronic Signature (eSignature) Court Decision — a rare one
In an odd electronic signature (eSignature) context, on December 30, 2014 a California appellate court reversed a trial court’s upholding of a settlement agreement based on a typewritten name in an email string. See J.B.B. Investment Partners v. Fair, 2014 WL 7421609 (Cal. App. 1st Dist. 12/30/14).
The circumstances made clear to the appeals court that the…