Judicial Support Blog

It used to be easy, well relatively easy. You looked at what documents you held in archive as part of the process of considering issuing litigation proceedings. If proceedings were brought against you again you looked at what documents you held in you archive prior to issuing your defense. So what’s changed? Cloud computing that’s [...]

With cloud computing becoming an ever more popular method of storing both professional and personal data it is advisable to consider the risks that may arise in the contentious area of e-discovery. The ability to locate and produce data that could be subject or responsive in any way to litigation is vital for any company [...]

Deciding whether personal information and communications are liable to disclosure can be contentious. Whilst common law and the Fourth Amendment protect the right to privacy courts have demonstrated that in instances involving communication to mass audiences such as social media sites there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. As technology evolves and devices for communication [...]

Organizations can encounter difficulties with their information management, retaining more data than is necessary, therefore assuming the extra cost of storing and managing it. In the 1970s many organizations initiated document retention programs that included a schedule of disposition by judging a documents life span due to its business or legal requirement. By the late [...]

Companies and corporations are retaining overly large amounts of electronically stored information at great cost due to the fear of being penalised in the course of litigation. This is the view of several groups, among them Lawyers for Civil Justice, who feel that e-discovery law is inconsistent and places unreasonable demands on litigants in terms [...]

Legal services that are available on the internet is a fairly recent concept brought about by the emergence of a few web sites that offer a platform where lawyers can bid for work that is posted on the site by potential clients. How this works is that someone posts a project or service that they [...]

A recent trend in electronic discovery is the use of “special masters” to help the parties classify and carry out the discovery of electronically stored information. There are a number of court related pilot schemes presently in existence. One such is taking place in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania where [...]

Both law firms and corporations are looking to do-it-yourself options in an effort to increase efficiency whilst reducing the costs involved with e-discovery. Many are opting to split the process of e-discovery between outside services and undertaking it in-house. One disadvantage of this method is the results can be disjointed and uneven with data being [...]

As a group paralegals are mostly dedicated and loyal to the profession, many of them have arrived in the profession from other jobs and industries. In many cases the decision to leave a successful position to pursue a new career in a completely different field of expertise is a difficult one to make and once [...]