Rob compiles the information from online public domain resources and highlights key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.  This is supplemented by the editorial staff of The Electronic Discovery Reading Room. 

This week’s spotlight:  Predictive coding ain’t really “new”, says Todd Haley from eTERA Consulting

The phrase “predictive coding” burst onto the e-discovery stage (more or less) in June 2011 when Recommind announced it had secured a patent.   But Recommind’s competitors as well as e-discovery commentators jumped all over this claim like scorched cats saying predictive coding was no more than a set of technologies or combination of technologies long in use.  As Todd Haley of eTERA Consulting says in a recent post “predictive Coding is not “new” – just “new” to the legal industry”.  For his thoughts, click here.

And now the past week’s news and views:

eDiscovery News: Content and Considerations

• 7th Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program Tackles Technology Assisted Review - bit.ly/LjdGij (Allison Walton)
• ABA Working Group Issues Interim Report on eDiscovery in Bankruptcy Cases – Electronic Discovery Law – bit.ly/KJpyM4 (K&L Gates)
• Another Step Forward: District Court Affirms Seminal Decision Authorizing Computer-Assisted Review – bit.ly/JooXtm (William Vita)
• Contract Attorneys – The Latest Addition to the Endangered Species List – bit.ly/LaMCPq (Brandon Hollinder)
• Cooperation Does Not Mean Collaboration - bit.ly/JTWD5l (Charles Holloway)
• Coping With Preservation and Proportionality in Legal Holds – bit.ly/J1luS9 (Monica Bay)
• Courts Increasingly Cognizant of eDiscovery Burdens, Reject “Gotcha” Sanctions Demands - bit.ly/KYGcWj (Philip Favro)
• Da Silva Moore and the Role of ACEDS – bit.ly/JVpoQp (Sharon Nelson)
• Da Silva Moore: EDD’s Version of Keeping Up with the Kardashians - bit.ly/Ljr8CP (Sharon Nelson)
• Discussion: Judge Peck, Da Silva Moore And The Outlook For Predictive Coding - bit.ly/LkT5dw (Conor Crowley, Stephen Goldstein, Sean Foley)
• eDiscovery Can Improve with Lessons Learned from “oDiscovery” - bit.ly/Jil9f6 (Bill Belt)
• eDiscovery Case Law: Another Case with Inadmissible Text Messages - bit.ly/Jom5wH (Doug Austin)
• eDiscovery Trends: For Da Silva Moore Addicts - bit.ly/LaEHl8 (Doug Austin)
• Electronic Discovery Jargon Galore - bit.ly/KlK7ua (Amy Bowser-Rollins)
• Emails as Business Records — Admissibility Standards – bit.ly/MCWTZD (Gregory Joseph)
• FBI’s Newly Announced Investigation of JPMorgan to Create More eDiscovery Issues – bit.ly/Jx2TkT (Mike Hamilton)
• Federal Judges Preside Over Women in E-Discovery Meeting – bit.ly/KVTDGX (Monica Bay)
• Five Reasons Why a Small Law Firm Should Outsource - bit.ly/KrJe1g (Jonathan Easton)
• Greenberg Traurig Chair Alvarez Apologizes to Court - bit.ly/KfPbT0 (Paul Brinkman)
• How Project Management Adds Value To eDiscovery - bit.ly/JmliTt (Kelli Clark)
• Image Is Not Always Everything in eDiscovery: When is Imaging Hard Drives Worth the Added Expense? bit.ly/LkSnwH (Troutman Sanders)
• Inherent Power Sanctions — Bad Faith Requires Something More Than Mere Pursuit of Meritless Claim – bit.ly/JxcDvo (Gregory Joseph)
• Is There a New Duty to Preserve for Transactional Attorneys? bit.ly/LkOacg (David Picker)
• Judge Peck Denies Plaintiffs’ Amicus Brief on Recusal – bit.ly/Jxc4BH (Sean Doherty)
• Morgan Lewis Releases Unredacted Hot Info on Goldman Sachs - bit.ly/KfKB6Z (Sharon Nelson)
• New York Court Dismisses $20 Million Case as Spoliation Sanction - bit.ly/KXSLRM (Paul Asendis)
• Obama Intervenes to Toughen Government eDiscovery Rules – bit.ly/JyjYej (New Legal Review)
• Pa. Supreme Court Takes Up Admissibility of ‘Unauthenticated’ Texts - bit.ly/JTVSZZ (Ben Present)
• Recent Facts Emerge on ACEDS Attacks on Judge Peck in Da Silva Moore Predictive Coding Case - bit.ly/LaOpUB (Karl Schieneman)
• SEC, Government Agencies Struggling to Get eDiscovery Houses in Order - bit.ly/KfhzDV (Andrew Bartholomew)
• Seizing Social Media Information in a Criminal Case – bit.ly/Km6vmU (John Gregory)
• Separating the Wheat from the eDiscovery Software Chaff – bit.ly/KoB1wA (Chuck Rothman)
• Seventh Circuit Addresses Audio Recordings and the First Amendment – bit.ly/JU76iz (Joshua Engel)
• Spoliation and Social Media - bit.ly/MDlYnn (Tim Banks)
• Surging Wage and Hour Class Action Suits and the Importance of Social Media Evidence - bit.ly/LkLtaW (John Patzakis)
• Taxation of eDiscovery Costs is Clearly Not Settled Law - bit.ly/Kv8Hsm (Jeffrey Parkhurst)
• The Deep Well of eDiscovery - bit.ly/J1n3zx (Rob Hellewell)
• The Fabric of Inadequate Search & Spoliation Allegations - bit.ly/JmjU3s (Josh Gilliland)
• Understanding the Processing Phase of eDiscovery - bit.ly/KYAeVa (Kevin Nichols)
• What Was Old is New Again - bit.ly/Jihz4A (David Cochran)
• Who’s Afraid of Big, Bad Electronic Discovery? bit.ly/KfnPeS (Helen Howlett)
• Why We See Strange Exchange E-mail Addresses in eDiscovery – bit.ly/JmjCta (Armon Gungor)

Reports and Resources

• A $6.5B Market By 2015? Considering The Software and Service Markets For eDiscovery - bit.ly/K6u995 (@ComplexD)
• Critical Thought in Analytics and eDiscovery News - bit.ly/JiBvEJ (Gerard Britton)
• News International Scandal Sparks Concern about Business eDisclosure Processes, Survey Shows - bit.ly/J1lRfz (Business Wire)
• Ten Electronic Discovery Resources for Paralegals | The Legaco Express - bit.ly/Kfnlp3 (Nadine Roberts)
• The Rear View Mirror on Google+: Top 5 Stories From Last Week’s Unfiltered Orange Newsletter - bit.ly/Ks4rYQ (@OrangeLT)
• TREC Microblog Track: Tweets 2011 – Twitter Collection - 1.usa.gov/L4I0Kq (NIST)
• Updated: Technology Assisted Review Backgrounder – Related Links From February 1 – May 22, 2012 - bit.ly/IiTGtb (@OrangeLT)
• US Technology M&A insights: Q1 2012 Update – pwc.to/Jlart1 (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)

Sight and Sound

• Case in Point for Monday, May 21st, “Man vs. Machine” - bit.ly/KW7rkJ (Tom Fishburne)
• Charles Taylor, “Blood Diamonds” and the Role of ZyLAB and eDiscovery in War Crimes Prosecution – bit.ly/KW0253 (Project Counsel)
• How to Form an Information Governance Committee – An Infographic – bit.ly/Ljue9J (Nicole Lindenbaum)
• Information Governance with StoredIQ – bit.ly/MCZVwW (Katey Wood)
• Predictive Coding - A Case Study – (Podcast) bit.ly/JlBlw7 (Chris Dale, Dominic Lacey, Jamie Tanner, James Moeskops)
• The BP Oil Spill Case and Large Volume eDiscovery (Podcast) - yhoo.it/LaNX8L (PR Newswire)

Technology and Tactics

• 10 Steps for Responding to a Corporate Data Security Breach - bit.ly/KW0Jvd (David Fagan, Stephen Satterfield)
• Are Search Engine Results Protected Speech Under the First Amendment? bit.ly/KfjE2L (Peter Vogel)
• Big Data Troves Stay Forbidden to Social Scientists - nyti.ms/MCWjuQ (John Markoff)
• Business World Gets a New Way to Monitor Employee Text Messages - bit.ly/KfmQeX (Jon Brodkin)
• Corporate Boards Still In the Dark About Cybersecurity - bit.ly/MCYJtB (Catherine Dunn)
• Corporate Social Media: Marketing Opportunities, IP Challenges - bit.ly/JmloKM (Jeanne Hamburg)
• Cost Not the Main Driver for Cloud Adoption - bit.ly/JiAwnS (Kim Davis)
• Court Orders Search Engines and Social Sites to De-Index Websites – bit.ly/J1mi9y (Andrew Hazen)
• Doctors Warned To Stay Off Social Media to Avoid Patient Privacy Conflict - bit.ly/KfqsgM (Lucas Mearian)
• Facebook and LinkedIn: Social Media Maturity for Financial Services - bit.ly/KXYyak (Tim Walker)
• Facebook vs. Twitter – nyti.ms/KrI71B (Nick Bilton)
• FAST Searching Coming to Office 15 Server Applications - bit.ly/Jilyyb (Tony Redmond)
• FBI Campaign on Corporate Espionage Highlights Insider Threats – bit.ly/Jx6Ypj (Russell Miller)
• FCPA: Compliance And Enforcement Insights - bit.ly/KvbBgQ (Steven Tyrell)
• Google Overtakes Internet Explorer As Most Popular Browser – Business Insider - read.bi/KW4TDk (Seth Fiegerman)
• Governmental Access to Data in Cloud Debunks Faulty Assumption That US Access is Unique – bit.ly/KflAZ1 (Hogan Lovells)
• Hong Kong Guidance on the Use of Portable Storage Devices - bit.ly/KYAUtK (Gabriela Kennedy)
• IT Reduction: A Much-Needed Service - bit.ly/KvbemD (Lawrence Briggi, Daniel Roffman)
• Law Firms Rally Around Information Governance - bit.ly/Kfoj4T (Sean Doherty)
• Outsourcing IT And Business Processes: A Viable Corporate Strategy – bit.ly/Jx5nzC (Michael Brito)
• Predictive Coding Upheld: Judge Carter Endorses Judge Peck’s Approval of Computer-Assisted Review – bit.ly/Km4XJE (Philip Duffy)
• Privacy Hole Discovered in Windows 8 - bit.ly/Jy0Qx0 (John Mello)
• Privacy Rights of Companies: Trade Secrets and Social Media - bit.ly/JTVAlK (Michael Schmidt)
• Private Cloud File-Sync-and-Share for Enterprises - bit.ly/KrIZmE (Joshua Konkle)
• Should Active Directory Upgrade be Required in Exchange 15? bit.ly/Mkk4I9 (John Mello)
• Social Media Legal Best Practices: Problems and Solutions with Photo Uploading and Tagging - bit.ly/MD1mM0 (Evan Brown)
• Study: Patriot Act Gives US Government No Special Access to Cloud Data – bit.ly/JTCyNW (Grant Gross)
• Threats To Brands From Social Media - bit.ly/JmlPF0 (Michael Schmidt)
• UK Government Staff Caught Snooping On Citizen Data – zd.net/JlaZyY (Zack Whittaker)
• When Two-Factor Authentication Becomes a Black Hat’s Friend - bit.ly/LjtpxM (John Mello)

Vendor Views: Industry Landscape

• A LegalTech West Coast Update – Orange Legal Technologies - bit.ly/MDjlly (@OrangeLT)
• An Aggregate Overview of Leading eDiscovery Providers - bit.ly/Lkapzj (@ComplexD)
• AccessData: No Fear and Loathing at the AccessData User’s Conference in Las Vegas - bit.ly/KfHnk2 (Jason Velasco)
• Advanced Discovery Announces the Addition of Tobias Moyer, Solutions Engineer - bit.ly/JlA4Fp (PR Web)
• Archive Systems Introduces New VP of Information Governance - bit.ly/J1mPIt (PR Web)
• Are The Winners And Losers In The eDiscovery Software Market Already Determined? bit.ly/JlPQAb (Barry Murphy)
• Backupify Emerges As Leading Provider Of Cloud-based Backup Services For Educational Institutions – prn.to/Km9wUy (PR Newswire)
• Cernam: Addressing Our Digital Blind Spot – Identifying Digital Evidence Stored on Cloud Services - bit.ly/KfHSuz (Karen Reilly)
• CloudNine Discovery Announces OnDemand Version 11 - bit.ly/MCWxCj (PR Web)
• Clutch Group Expands Capabilities and Services by Appointing J.B. Costilow and Robert Klapp to Key Roles – bit.ly/KfkKvq (PR Web)
• CommVault Expands WorldWide Customer Support Capabilities in Asia Pacific and Latin America - bit.ly/Km5rQ9 (Press Release)
• Content Analyst:  Better Analytics Drives Excellent eDiscovery Solutions - bit.ly/JmlamV (Kurt Michael)
• Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Selects Relativity - on.mktw.net/MD0Eyp (GlobeNewswire)
• Dictation Maker BigHand Sold to U.K. Investment Firm for $77.4M - bit.ly/JiwqMB (Evan Koblentz)
• DiscoverReady Among Finalists for 2012 American Business Awards - reut.rs/Km5Sd4 (Press Release)
• Document Technologies, Inc. Rebrands as DTI -  bit.ly/Kv8ipR (Press Release)
• EasyLink Services International Corporation Announces Early Termination of HSR Waiting Period – on.mktw.net/KfM90R (Press Release)
• Eleventh Hour Adds Social Discovery Offering for Law Firm Clients - bit.ly/Jiheiv (@LegalIT)
• EMC Acquires Syncplicity – on.mktw.net/MCXaM6 (PR Newswire)
• Form 10-Q for Guidance Software, Inc. - bit.ly/JhG55V (Yahoo! Finance)
• Falcon Discovery Attorneys Achieve Certified E-Discovery Specialists (CEDS) Credentials - on.mktw.net/LjtP7i (Marketwire)
• FTI Consulting Appoints Asia Technology Team, Expands Full-Service Asia Pacific Technology Practice – on.mktw.net/KfgY5a (PR Newswire)
• FTI Consulting President/CEO Jack Dunn Recognized By Consulting Magazine - prn.to/JiBWPm (PR Newswire)
• Global Relay And PageFreezer Announce Partnership To Provide Archiving for Compliance and eDiscovery – bit.ly/KYziAT (Press Release)
• GlobalRelay Takes Position as World’s Largest Archiver of LinkedIn Messaging for Compliance - on.mktw.net/MCVfHp (PR Newswire)
• Guidance Software Demands Legal Aid for IT Departments – bit.ly/J25v7G (Caroline Donnelly)
• Guidance Software Launches EnCase App Central - bit.ly/JlzCah (Business Wire)
• Hobs Legal Docs Becomes Relativity Premium Hosting Partner - bit.ly/KfGsjr (Press Release)
• HootSuite Launches Social Compliance Powered by Global Relay - mwne.ws/KW5AfM (Marketwire)
• IBM Expands Global Cloud Capabilities with Advanced SmartCloud Services and New Customer Adoption – yhoo.it/JTVqLi (PR Newswire)
• Index Engines Announces Free Data Assessment Program for Enterprise Backup Tapes - bit.ly/Jy0xCm (Press Release)
• Informative Graphics Announces Release of Brava! 7 for EMC TaskSpace - mwne.ws/KW94iv (Marketwire)
• Instant Decryption of MS Office 2010 Documents Now Possible With Live Memory Analysis by Passware – prn.to/KfLlJs (PR Newswire)
• IPRO Tech, Inc. Announces Release of Eclipse SE 2.0 - on.mktw.net/KW6TLK (Marketwire)
• Is That Vendor On Twitter? 160+ eDiscovery Related Vendors In The Twittersphere – bit.ly/IfBrVP (@ComplexD)
• Lateral Data Adds eLit as Viewpoint Partner – bit.ly/Jx9wUo (Press Release)
• LegalTech West Coast Preview: Day 1 - bit.ly/MCUfTL (Sean Doherty)
• LegalTech West Coast Preview: Day 2 - bit.ly/Kfg88B (Sean Doherty)
• Lighthouse Adds Equivio’s Zoom to Service Offerings - bit.ly/KwymVl (PR Newswire)
• Nuix Expands Investigator Range of Solutions to Help Investigators Find Evidence - bit.ly/KgT1el (Business Wire)
• Ogletree Deakins Selects @Recommind for Enterprise Search – bit.ly/J29KQo (Press Release)
• OpenText Unveils Record-Setting SQL Server 2012 Benchmarking Study Results - on.mktw.net/LjvLwK (PR Newswire)
• Proofpoint Announces First Quarter 2012 Financial Results - on.mktw.net/J1mw0o (Marketwire)
• Quinn Emanuel Chooses Viewpoint™ – bit.ly/KrG6SZ (PR Web)
• SFLData Clients and Intelligent Case Assessment with Relativity - bit.ly/JxcXdA (PR Web)
• Slotter Latest FBI Veteran at Stroz Friedberg – bit.ly/Jyl0qy (Evan Kobletz)
• The First Forensic Software Solution to Provide Recovery of Cloud-Based Evidence - on.mktw.net/LkL1t9 (Marketwire)
• West Coast eDiscovery Firm TERIS Promotes Kevin Brooks to President, TERIS Washington/California – bit.ly/Jx1riq (PR Web)

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