E-Discovery and Microsoft Technology

Tag-inator 3: Rise of the Machines

Can a machine categorize or tag email any better than a person? In our previous post, we explored how to make it easy for users to categorize an email inside of Outlook. But what if the user still isn't doing it, in spite of how easy we've made it? Or

Tag! Episode 2: Email Messages Tagged While You Wait

When email messages need to be examined for attorney/client privilege, discovery slow to a crawl. And obviously the expense of preparing for discovery goes way up. If only there were an easy way to get users to tag email messages so people don’t have

Is it "Safe" to Store Voicemail in Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging?

I've co-authored a post on the MS Exchange Team's blog, "You Had Me At EHLO." It's entitled "Voice Mail and Discoverability with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging," and explores the features and functions, as well as some of the legal wrangling around storing

Don't Drop The Attachment! Using Microsoft Exchange 2007 to produce in a "Native" Format

Nothing sharpens your focus like a $206,000 question! In the case of PSEG Power of New York v. Alberici Constructors, Inc. the court wrestled with the e-discovery issue of whether or not PSEG had to produce 3,000 emails and their corresponding attachments

POP! Goes the Evidence.

Who could resist a catchy title like this: "Court-ordered forensic search of CEO's laptop?" When I first saw that, I immediately wondered, "Just how many Michael Bolton MP3s were on there?" But if you read the tale of Treppel v. Biovail on the K&L

Hold Me Now! How to quickly put a retention hold on 1,400 employees using Microsoft Exchange 2007.

The consequences for failing to correctly implement a retention hold can be severe. For example, issues surrounding a litigation hold helped cause Intel to lose attorney-client privilege and work-product protection of certain materials relating to their