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Meta Data
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North Carolina Business Litigation Report
Mining For Metadata In Communications From Opposing Counsel Would Be Prohibited Under Proposed Ethics Opinion From North Carolina State Bar
The North Carolina State Bar has proposed an Ethics Opinion on whether a lawyer can look for and use metadata contained in a electronic communication from another party or that…
Law Practice Tips
New Hampshire Bar Issues Metadata Ethics Opinion
By Jim Calloway
The New Hampshire Bar Association issued Ethics Committee Opinion 2008-2009/4 on April 16, 2009. I've written at length on this subject and one can go here to review my take…
Law Practice Tips
The Ethics of Metadata 2008
By Jim Calloway
Metadata still remains a huge and often misunderstood topic. Since my article Metadata - What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties? was published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal…
Legal Profession Blog
The Importance of Proofreading Appendices
Posted by Alan ChildressQuoting West's "Headnote of the Day" for July 9, Ray Ward and a commenter at the (new) legal writer blog observe that slapping on appendices to a…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Day Three of the National Institute on Cyberlaw
By Ellen Podgor
Whitney Scott - A 3L at Stetson University College of LawOn the third day of the ABA National Institute on Cyberlaw, the first session was an overview of Digital Evidence…
Legal Profession Blog
Cautionary Tale of Leaving the “Track Changes” Unaccepted. Or, I Never Metadata I Didn’t Like
Posted by Alan ChildressFrom the law-tech website The Connected Lawyer comes an abject lesson in leaving metadata or similar residual thoughts intact when sending a document to a client, opposing…
Legal Profession Blog
More Moles for Metadata: This Time It Is Photos
Posted by Alan ChildressThis blog and also Legal Ethics Forum (and here) have done several posts on the issue of metadata hidden in word processing files, and especially the ethical…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Orders Production of Purportedly Privileged Report of Corporate Counsel; Metadata also Required
In Ryan v. Gifford, (Del Ch., Nov. 30, 2007), read opinion here, the Chancery Court ordered the production of a report that a company's lawyers provided to a special committee of the…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Meta Data and Litigating Your Case
Arising in the nature of inadvertant attorney client privilege, the question of meta data was recently discussed by Hinshaw: "The D.C. Bar Association Legal Ethics Committee concluded that when a…
Legal Profession Blog
More On Metadata Mining
The D. C. Bar's ethics committee has issued an opinion on mining metadata from documents provided by an opposing party. It is improper to mine only when the attorney has…