August 17, 2006 – Electronic Discovery Law

E-Discovery of Dynamic Data and Real-Time Communications: New Technology, Practical Facts, and Familiar Legal Principles

Aug 17 2006

A great article on dynamic data by Microsoft’s Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Litigation, and Greg McCurdy, Senior Attorney, in the August 2006 of The Pocket Part, the online supplement to The Yale Law Journal.

"The forthcoming Federal e-discovery Rules are a welcome advance, but they do not address all of e-discovery’s challenging issues. For example, how should the law treat instant messaging (IM) or other forms of real-time communications? When must organizations or individuals preserve dynamic data such as databases or work in progress? Practical realities and established legal principles from the age of typewriters and telephones teach us that businesses should need to preserve real-time communications and dynamic data only when they record them for business purposes."

Click here to read the entire article.

BNA’s Patent Litigation Strategies Update

Aug 17 2006

Preston partner Helen Bergman Moure is a member of the faculty that will present at the timely half-day pre-conference workshop — "E-Discovery in Patent Litigation: New Rules, New Tools" — East Palo Alto, California. The pre-conference workshop is scheduled for September 27, 2006.

The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure covering retention and discovery of electronic evidence are expected to go into effect on December 1, 2006. This is an opportunity to prepare for these significant changes. The experts will examine the revisions in the context of patent litigation matters.

For a brochure and further details on this two-day conference, click here.

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