Industry Substandard: Stripping Application Metadata

24 Wednesday Aug 2011

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Shouldn’t we be aghast that firms still deal with tracked changes and comments in Word documents by simply wishing them away?  “It isn’t discoverable if it wasn’t in the final version” is a risky rationale.  “It might be privileged, so quietly remove it all,” is well, kinda nuts.

Here’s why: Consider that ESI can be broadly characterized as a record, a communication or a hybrid of both.  What we store for retrieval is a record, and what we transmit is a communication.  There’s much crossover, and sometimes we show instead of tell. Continue reading →

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

20 Saturday Aug 2011

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I christen this blog with words from David Copperfield, my favorite book by my favorite author, Charles Dickens.  I want the heroes of this site to be its readers: the lawyers, judges, support personnel and others with the wisdom to know they must master electronic evidence and the temerity to try.

Blogging is an indulgence and a responsibility.  If I want you to visit, I’ve got to give you something worth your time.  Here, I’ll share things I’ve picked up about electronic discovery and computer forensics, striving to make those topics as interesting, exciting and engaging for you as they are for me.  If I occasionally eke out a well-turned phrase or make you smile, all the better.  Now and then, I may indulge in a personal post about something else, but I trust you’ll skip anything that doesn’t catch your fancy. Continue reading →