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Search Term Fashionista: Meet & Confers Never Go Out of Style

May 24, 2010 Josh Gilliland Civil Procedure, e-Discovery, Electronically Stored Information, Meet & Confer

One thing never goes out of fashion in e-Discovery: The Meet & Confer over search terms. In Ross v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co., the Plaintiff brought a motion to compel missing electronically stored information. Ross v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47620 (S.D. Ohio May 14, 2010). […]

Don’t Bank on this Strategy to Compel Electronically Stored Information

August 27, 2009 Josh Gilliland Discovery, e-Discovery, Electronically Stored Information, ESI, Meet & Confer, Motion to Compel

The Court finds the parties could have avoided the expenses of this Motion by conferring appropriately early in the case about ESI. United States Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. LaSalle Bank Nat’l Ass’n, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70514 (S.D. Ohio July 24, 2009). Banks really[…]

Rock Opera Discovery of Archived ESI

August 17, 2009 Josh Gilliland Discovery, Electronically Stored Information, ESI, Form of Production, Meet & Confer, Reasonably Accessible, Request for Production

In re In re Operadora DB Mex., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68078 (M.D. Fla. May 28, 2009), is the story of an international legal dispute, arbitration and the Hard Rock Café. While all of that makes for an exciting feature act, we will rock out to the electronic discovery issues. The[…]