The new Federal Rule 37(e) (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) governs the imposition of “spoliation sanctions” (i.e., remedial measures that judges may impose against a party for failing to preserve potentially relevant evidence) came into effect on December 15, 2015. The Rule 37 (e) aims at (a) harmonizing the federal standards governing spoliation sanctions and...
Document review holds the most favourite positionin the process of litigation for most attorneys, and no one comprehends this better than managed document review firms. It is a necessary step, alongside being tedious, expensive and time consuming. In the absence of well-versed document review, attorneys wouldn’t be able to put together the strongest case, and...
Document review is the ultimate step beforeproduction, in which a party provides or demandsascertainable information to its opponent. The essence of document review, is to identify the information which falls within the scope ofdiscovery. Legal document review and management is a tedious, labour-intensive, and one of the most expensive stage in the litigation process. Attorneys spend countless hours...
In recent years, there has been an ever-increasing need or demand for e-discovery that reaches beyond just a single jurisdiction and is, instead, truly global. In the past, document review companies were often able to address a matter by simply conducting data preservation, collection, processing, review and production in one location or country. Today it...
Despite the passage of a decade of analytics and technology-driven workflows, document review service remains to be the largest chunk of cost in the discovery process. Lawyers reading documents squanders time, and paying for that time can glaringly increase costs in an already tight budget. Firms and corporations, do not wish to loosen their budget...
Globally, mundane business maneuvers and consumer behavior has been shaken up on a massive scale due to COVID – 19. Various business sectors are struggling to slow the spread of the illness and contain the infection. The virus spread has proven to be the biggest threat to the global economy and financial markets. In these...
