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What is Ediscovery?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Electronic discovery (AKA eDiscovery/ediscovery/E-Discovery/e-Discovery) is in the more exclusive category of “Things that are both invaluable and tedious to learn/apply but necessary to stay relevant and effective professionally.”. Document review platforms are places to sort, tag, view, redact and produce the relevant ESI.

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IN LITIGATION, WHAT IS DISCOVERY?

JayS.Rothman&Associates

In California State court, the discovery process plays a crucial role in litigation, serving the purpose of ensuring fairness, facilitating the exchange of information, and promoting efficient case resolution. The methods of discovery and the timing associated with them are governed by California’s Code of Civil Procedure.

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Six Reasons Technology Is Important To Your Paralegal Career

DigitalParalegalServices

Electronically stored information, more commonly referred to as ESI, was first addressed in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure decades ago. The most recent significant changes to The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“FRCP”) regarding ESI was in 2006, and more changes are on track for adoption in December 2015.

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Migrating Data to Cloud: What Law Firms Should Look Out For

LawTechnologyToday

When handling sensitive data it’s crucial that companies lose no record and meet many compliance requirements that govern data handling. Managing electronically stored information . All electronically stored information (ESI) that law firms keep are heavily regulated.

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

Paralegal Bootcamp

E-discovery, or electronic discovery, refers to the process of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in legal proceedings. Instead, I’ll do a separate “paralegal AI tools” article and link to it here in the future. eDiscovery skills What is eDiscovery?

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Two Big Legal Technology Trends Affecting In-House Teams in 2022 (Adv.)

InHouseBlog

Two trends that organizations must reckon with in 2022 are particularly important to legal departments: the rapid adoption of a variety of new technology platforms to facilitate remote work and the increasing risk of conflict between our ability to store and process data and the state, national, and international regulations governing data privacy.

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A Path to eDiscovery Certification

Paralegal Bootcamp

For more than 10 years, ACEDS has trained lawyers, paralegals and other legal support professionals at law firms, corporate legal departments, the government, and in academia. He is also the author of the 2016 book Project Management in Electronic Discovery , now in its second edition.