This is the first of a three part series of tech tips on Slack.
You’ve never heard of Slack or you’ve never used it, and suddenly you’re faced with it from a client or needing to ask for data from
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Why this matters. In most modern disputes, the clearest decision trail lives in iMessage/Android Messages and enterprise chat—Teams and Slack—with Signal and Telegram increasingly used by government actors, sophisticated adversaries, and people who want to avoid scrutiny. The duty to…
By Kelly Twigger, CEO, Minerva26
For too long, discovery has been treated like a compliance chore. Check the boxes, survive the deadlines, move on. That mindset doesn’t hold up anymore.
When nearly all evidence lives as ESI, discovery is the…
In Episode 176, Kelly Twigger discusses how the rules of self-collection apply to experts, and the failure to supervise the collection of documents from an expert led to misrepresentations to the court, the exclusion of key evidence at trial and…
In Episode 175, Kelly Twigger discusses how the intentional destruction of data from a voice recorder in an aircraft, and the court’s reluctance to impose meaningful sanctions—even when the record arguably justified them—calls into question whether Rule 37(e)(2) can protect…
In Episode 174, Kelly Twigger discusses whether a party not on an enterprise license for Slack has an obligation to produce data from the platform and what you need to do in advance of filing a motion to compel in…
In Episode 173, Kelly Twigger discusses the imposition of sanctions and what those sanctions were following the submission of AI generated hallucinated citations in a brief to the Special Master on discovery issues in Lacey v. State Farm Gen. Ins.Co.…
In Episode 172, Kelly Twigger discusses when a party is entitled to cookies from a party’s device or browser and how the court ordered the parties to meet and confer to find a solution to producing them in In re…
In Episode 171, Kelly Twigger discusses the latest decision on whether an employer has possession, custody or control over data in its employees’ personal devices in Allergan, Inc. v. Revance Therapeutics, Inc.
Introduction
Welcome to our Case of the Week…
In Episode 170, Kelly Twigger discusses what the meet and confer requirement in the Federal Rules means and what can happen when a party attempts to weaponize discovery through threats and demands in Wilbert v. Pyramind Healthcare, Inc.
Introduction
Welcome…