As digital communication evolves, social media platforms and short message data have become integral to modern litigation. Posts, comments, direct messages, and ephemeral content can serve as pivotal evidence, presenting unique legal and technical challenges in their collection, preservation, and review. 

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,...

So, your organization is engaged in, or reasonably anticipates: litigation defense, regulatory investigation (especially if you're held to GDPR or CCPA), an audit, or another legal dispute. 

Now what?

State and federal statutes, court rules, and government regulations each promulgate, frame, and define an organization’s obligations to identify relevant electronically stored information (“ESI”) when such conflicts arise. According to EDRM, Identification is arguably among the most important...