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DEFENDING ELECTRONIC MAIL AS EVIDENCE: NEW BOOK
A new book will be released by CastleQuest on January 15th, entitled Defending Electronic Mail As Evidence: The Critical E-Discovery Questions...

Electronically Stored Information: Beyond Electronic Documents and E-Mail
Source: Lexology, February 20, 2008. Exotic ESI ? beyond electronic documents and e-mailKramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP"Instant messages, random access memory (RAM), voicemail, graphic images on cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), web-based e-mail ? the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have made it clear that these types of electronically stored information (ESI) are fair game during discovery, if relevant and not unduly burdensome to produce...

California's Electronic Discovery Takes Effect: Parties Must Preserve Electronic Information
Source: Lexology, August 7, 2009. California - California's Electronic Discovery Act takes effect; parties must preserve electronic informationLuce Forward Hamilton & Scripps"On June 29, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law California?s Electronic Discovery Act (AB 5)...

Electronic Discovery and Electronic Decisions Highlight Privacy Issues in Litigation
E-discovery can and often does raise important privacy questions for counsel and clients. The Sedona Canada Principles Addressing Electronic Discovery [PDF] identify privacy as one of the non-monetary costs that should be considered in applying the concept of proportionality (Principle 2)...

Electronic Notice of Appeal Accepted Only if Appellate Court has Local Rule Permitting Electronic Filing
In Louden V. A.O. Smith Corp., Slip. Opinion 2009-Ohio-319, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld a decision of the Eighth District Court of Appeals dismissing a case as untimely filed after the appealing parties first tried to file their notices...

Insurance Provider Settles Case Due to Deficiencies in Electronic Signatures, Electronic Evidence, and Contract Drafting
By Mehmet MunurA District Court in New York recently decided a case where the perfect storm of messy contract drafting, which left a key term undefined and ambiguous, lack of proper evidence to prove the date of formation of the contract, and deficiencies in electronic signatures forced a life insurance provider to settle the case...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

If only one of the parts of an agreement has signed a written contract, can an e-mail be considered an agreement?
No, an email is not considered a contract. At the most is can be considered a wr...

My husband and I applied for and received a home equity loan in a year ago (08/2005). After the funds were recieved, the bank sent us a letter stating that the county would not record our loan due to the notary not stamp
Yes it's legal. You are still responsible for the loan that you signed for ...

Can I get sent to jail or lose everything I own?
No they have no business showing up at your house and furthermore, you can tell ...

Did he marry me for a green card?
Divorce is always an ugly thing and people tend to get their feelings hurt. Why ...