Text Messages and Privacy
Can you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages? This video clip from the CT Summation & Ivize webinar addressed this issue.
Read moreAuthor: Josh Gilliland
Josh Gilliland is an associate attorney at Greenan, Peffer, Sallander & Lally LLP. Josh is the co-creator of The Legal Geeks, which has made the ABA Journal Top Blawg 100 Blawg from 2013 to 2016, the Web 100 from 2017 to 2018, and was nominated for Best Podcast for the 2015 Geekie Awards. Josh has presented at legal conferences and comic book conventions across the United States. He also ties a mean bow tie.
The Julia Allison Effect on e-Discovery
It started with JenniCam when I was in college: People crying for attention and utilizing technology to express themselves with a cultish following.[1] Julia Allison has taken this to a new level of Internet self-promotion that highlights a strange effect on litigation. For those not familiar with her, Julia Allison[…]
Read moreThe e-Discovery Chase: Strategies to Reduce Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Requests
All of our tools and toys that generate electronically stored information can frustrate law firms with high e-Discovery costs. Lawyers who choose to have their discovery productions printed can have nearly 10,000 times more paper than 10 years ago.[1] It is difficult to visualize how “big” ESI can be. WIRED[…]
Read moreThe Request for Production You Never Saw Coming: Match.com Profiles as Evidence
Dating is not always easy. Dating outside of a marriage is just asking for trouble. The key evidence in a recent marriage fraud case was the Defendant’s Match.com profile. Now, there was other substantial evidence in the case, but the evidence the court spent the most time on was a[…]
Read moreiProblems with MP3 Players
From Consider this… A mother bought her daughter an MP3 player from Wal-Mart. Mom thought the MP3 player was new, but Wal-Mart sells used MP3 players as new products without disclosing the fact they are used.[1] The 12 year old daughter started using her “new-to-her” MP3 player. To her shock,[…]
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