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BlackBerry Boo-Boos: How to Get the Judge to Text You Adverse Inference Instructions
Southeastern Mechanical Services, Inc., v Brody, et al., is the story of how wiping the data off your BlackBerry can result with the Court having you drawn and quartered. Not with horses, but with ad… more →
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BlackBerry Boo-Boos: How to Get the Judge to Text You Adverse Inference Instructions
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bowtielaw wrote 1 month ago: Southeastern Mechanical Services, Inc., v Brody, et al., is the story of how wiping the data off you … more →
Eight Tenets for Building Effective Records Retention Policies
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wtolson wrote 2 months ago: Corporate records retention policies for many companies are afterthoughts with little understanding … more →
Proving Up Destroyed ESI is Favorable to Your Position is Hard to Do
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bowtielaw wrote 2 months ago: In an ADA employment case, the Plaintiff sought spoliation sanctions and an adverse inference instru … more →
A Three Page Order Hitting De-Duplication & Litigation Holds
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bowtielaw wrote 2 months ago: From the plains of Kansas comes another short and powerful order by Magistrate Judge David Waxse. O … more →
A Picture is worth a Thousand Words, but Sanctions are Priceless
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bowtielaw wrote 2 months ago: The Defendants in Green v. McClendon, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71860 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 13, 2009) attempted … more →
Lions, Tigers & Bears: Failing to Preserve ESI, Search Terms and Forensically Imaging Computers
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bowtielaw wrote 2 months ago: In Treppel v. Biovail Corp., 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25867 (S.D.N.Y. 2008) the Plaintiff brought an ac … more →
Strategies for a Litigation Hold Letter
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bowtielaw wrote 3 months ago: Discussion of case law examples of what should go in a litigation hold letter. … more →
Spoliation! A New Drama at the District Courthouse about a Litigation Hold and Missing Electronically Stored Information
bowtielaw wrote 3 months ago: The stage is set: There is a triggering event for a lawsuit, a litigation hold is enacted and eviden … more →
Litigation Holds and Lessons Learned
wtolson wrote 4 months ago: Bow Tie Law’s Blog recently had an interesting piece on litigation holds titled “The Holding Pattern … more →
The Holding Pattern: Lessons Learned on Litigation Holds
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bowtielaw wrote 4 months ago: The past three years have seen an increase of cases highlighting litigation holds and the duty to pr … more →
Manual Litigation Holds are Risky
wtolson wrote 4 months ago: In the case Pinstripe, Inc. v. Manpower, Inc., 2009 WL 2252131 (N.D. Okla. July 29, 2009), the defen … more →
Invasion of Privacy and Spoliation on MySpace
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bowtielaw wrote 4 months ago: It is true that mass communication is no longer limited to a tiny handful of commercial purveyors an … more →
Can SharePoint be an effective eDiscovery Repository?
wtolson wrote 4 months ago: Microsoft positions SharePoint as a document and information sharing platform for companies. SharePo … more →
Spoliation is a “Grimm” Business
bowtielaw wrote 5 months ago: Magistrate Judge Grimm is no stranger to watershed opinions…and on occasion the 100 page a law revie … more →
The Plumbing of a Motion to Compel
bowtielaw wrote 6 months ago: In a product defect case about brass plumbing fittings, the Defendants fought a motion to compel ele … more →
Litigation Holds, Web 2.0 and e-Discovery at the Arkansas Bar Association Meeting
bowtielaw wrote 6 months ago: I presented at the Arkansas Bar Association in Hot Springs on June 12, 2009. I have presented near … more →
Reckless Abandon: Lost Hard Drives and Sanctions
bowtielaw wrote 6 months ago: In complex commercial litigation today, virtually all discovery involves electronic discovery to som … more →
Dirty Law: Cleaning Up a Spoliation Mess
bowtielaw wrote 6 months ago: “The duty to preserve relevant evidence is fundamental to federal litigation.” Janet Bond Arterton, … more →
What Litigation Hold? Failing to Image Hard Drives and Other Discovery Mistakes
bowtielaw wrote 6 months ago: Plunk v. Vill. of Elwood, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42952 (N.D. Ill. May 20, 2009) is a civil rights cas … more →
