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Don't Take a Beating on Your Hit Rate
The Corporate Counselor
Faced with ever-increasing litigation costs, in-house lawyers are searching for effective and legally defensible means of limiting the costs of electronic discovery. Legal teams can effectively incorporate search techniques into their best practices by considering critical issues before they review a single page.

Data Conversion: The Big Move
LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter
Converting legacy data from one system to another is like moving from one home to another. The issues faced are similar to those firm managers hope to avoid, but often face during the conversion of data from one system to another.

Webcaster Royalty Rates Rising
Internet Law & Strategy
Licensing requirements and royalty rates for online uses of music are undergoing sweeping changes — spurring litigation, appeals and even legislation in Congress. As a result, Webcasters are scrambling to re-evaluate and redirect their business models, as they may soon be forced to pay for huge increases in royalties to recording artists.

Digital Era Causes Shifts in Roles of Record Labels and Music Publishers
Entertainment Law & Finance
The digital-music era has resulted in many shifts in the music business. A major one has been the creative and economic repositioning of record labels and music publishers. In the following interview, coordinated by Entertainment Law & Finance Editor-in-Chief Stan Soocher, Keith C. Hauprich and Bob Donnelly discuss this repositioning and related issues from the publisher’s and artist attorney’s perspectives.

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Note to Subscribers
It is with great regret that we must tell you that this, the October 2007 Issue, will be the last for e-Discovery Law & Strategy.

Avoiding Common Collection Blunders
Electronic discovery is filled with pitfalls and mistakes that can be avoided with proper planning and preparation. One area that can have the greatest impact on the defensibility and the cost of e-discovery is evidence collection. The effective execution of this phase will go the farthest in improving overall e-discovery success while lowering associated risks. In other words, if data is harvested and restored in a legally defensible, forensically sound manner, then the overall project will have a much better chance of achieving a favorable or expected outcome. Following are some common mistakes often encountered in e-discovery — and some advice on how to avoid them.

Litigation Data Analysis Strategies For Legal Teams
The need for lawyers to leverage technical knowledge to prepare a case for the courtroom is escalating rapidly. But attorneys should take note that e-discovery requiring knowledge of ESI and access to experts to help litigation teams isn’t confined to the Fortune 500.

Analyzing Instant Messaging As Evidence
Instant messaging is an increasingly popular medium that is sometimes an important link in the prosecution’s case. As with every new communication tool, it brings new challenges for criminal procedure. This multi-layered technology provides the convenience of e-mail coupled with the immediacy of a phone call. At the same time, its informality allows anonymity and raises concerns about privacy, authentication, best evidence and identification.

e-Discovery Docket Sheet
Recent court rulings in e-discovery.

Computer Forensics Docket Sheet
Court Reverses Conviction Where Defendant Was Unaware Of Computer Cache Files

October 2007 Issue in PDF Format