Translation Into A Reasonably Useable Form

Straightening Out the Form of Production

May 5, 2015 Josh Gilliland Form of Production, Native File, TIFF, Translation Into A Reasonably Useable Form

Magistrate Judge Stanley Boone had to straighten out a form of production dispute in a consumer protection case over curling irons. As the parties in this case learned, sometimes the form of production needs a detangler. The Plaintiffs requested ESI to be produced in native file format or TIFF with[…]

Hands-on eDiscovery: California Seminar on Responding to Discovery Requests

February 28, 2013 Josh Gilliland California Electronic Discovery Act, Processing, Reasonably Useable Form, Request for Production, Translation Into A Reasonably Useable Form

I had the good fortune to organize a seminar on responding to electronic discovery requests for the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Civil Practice Committee on February 27, 2013. However, this seminar was different from other eDiscovery CLE’s, because the attendees spent a full hour conducting searches for responsive ESI[…]

Smile for the Discovery Production

January 20, 2012 Josh Gilliland e-Discovery, Reasonably Useable Form, Request for Production, Translation Into A Reasonably Useable Form

In a dispute between a photographer and an educational textbook publisher, the Plaintiff sough the production of a definition list to the Defendants’ database abbreviations. Bean v. John Wiley & Sons, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4900, 1-3 (D. Ariz. Jan. 17, 2012). The Defendants’ sales, printing and distribution database was[…]