De-Dupe – Bow Tie Law

Meet & Confer at 10 Paces

May 13, 2013 Josh Gilliland Civil Procedure, De-Dupe, e-Discovery, Meet & Confer, Search Terms

There are attorneys who believe the most effective Rule 26(f) meet and confer is simply meeting at dawn with dueling pistols. The parties in Procongps, Inc. v. Skypatrol, LLC, fought over proclaimed inadequate productions, failures to adequately meet and confer and the defensibility of their productions. Procongps, Inc. v. Skypatrol,[…]

A Standard for Undue Burden: Excruciating, But Highly Educational and Useful, Detail

March 9, 2011 Josh Gilliland De-Dupe, Discovery, Duty to Preserve, e-Discovery, Electronically Stored Information, Email, ESI, Imaging Hard Drives, Processing, Reasonably Accessible

Discovery Balancing Acts in a War Zone United States ex rel. McBride v. Halliburton Co., is a qui tam action over alleged fraudulent billing for services provided to the US military in Iraq. The case involved inflated headcounts in Morale, Welfare and Recreation (“MWR”) facilities and fraudulent billing for those costs to[…]

A Three Page Order Hitting De-Duplication & Litigation Holds

September 28, 2009 Josh Gilliland Culling, De-Dupe, e-Discovery, Electronically Stored Information, Email, ESI, Litigation Hold

From the plains of Kansas comes another short and powerful order by Magistrate Judge David Waxse. On Constitution Day, Judge Waxse was very busy in White v. Graceland College Ctr. for Prof’l Dev. & Lifelong Learning, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85849 (D. Kan. Sept. 18, 2009). For an earlier[…]