Case Law: DR Distributors v 21 Century Smoking, Inc.

Feb 4, 2021 3:04:10 PM / by Scott Collins

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What happens when attorneys and their clients disregard both the spirit and letter of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure’s eDiscovery rules? As illustrated in the case below, very bad things.

Even federal judges have breaking points, and after more than 8 years, 400+ docket entries, and an almost incomprehensible number of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) blunders, defendants and their counsel unfortunately (but not surprisingly) found themselves on the exploding end of a 103-page,...

Case Law: Big Ass Fans v. David T. Williams

Jan 22, 2021 10:39:20 AM / by Anthony Cozzi

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A company with a funny name. A dispute about intellectual property. Concerns about cost and privacy. Add it up and what do you get? The latest Proteus Discovery Group case law study.

Case Law: Roost Project v. Andersen Construction Company

Jan 8, 2021 11:45:16 AM / by Vanessa Woolsey

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Spoliation sanctions. Two words no-in-house counsel or law firm litigator ever wants to hear, but a routeinely-deployed threat when a disagreement about the availability of ESI arises. 

Biggest Data Breach Threat: Your Employees

Dec 8, 2020 8:15:00 AM / by Ryan Short

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2020 has been a banner year for highlighting the visceral relevance of cybersecurity. Risk mitigation is being discussed regularly, but law firms cannot eliminate their biggest source of risk: employees.  

Ray Featured on Consulting Logistics Podcast

Nov 30, 2020 8:15:00 AM / by Ryan Short

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Proteus co-founder and CEO, Ray Biederman, recently joined Kyle MacNaught of Aborn & Co on the Consulting Logistics Podcast.

Data Breach Fatigue Is Real

Nov 16, 2020 12:41:47 PM / by Ryan Short

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I write this post from my childhood bedroom. Yesterday, life gave me an unplanned analogy for parenthood and corporate data breaches.

The Case for Outsourcing

Nov 2, 2020 11:01:57 AM / by Ryan Short

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A $128 million lawsuit is not a typical day in the office. When LeClairRyan and UnitedLex joined forces in 2018, neither party saw it ending like this

Thoughts on Legal Business Development

Oct 27, 2020 3:17:19 PM / by Ryan Short

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My transition to the legal space (the week Indiana shut down due to COVID-19) has been eye-opening in many respects. One area of constant curiosity for me is legal professionals' and law firms' business development efforts.

Ray Biederman on the Fringe Legal Podcast

Oct 16, 2020 2:24:50 PM / by Ryan Short

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Ray recently joined Ab Saraswat on theFringe Legal podcast to talk about DiscoveryMaster, a tool developed to give non-Relativity experts critical insights into document review progress and budgets.

White House Makes an eDiscovery Rookie Mistake

Oct 7, 2020 2:07:50 PM / by Ryan Short

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A picture is worth a thousand words, but the metadata often helps illuminate whether those words are fact or faction.