The need to capture and preserve social media content from sites such as FaceBook have become more important than every to avoid sanctions as described in this $524,000 ruling against attorney Mathew B. Murray and, $180,000 against his client Isaiagh Lester for a FaceBook spoilation case which included litigation with Facebook itself in an effort to recover the content.

This sanction effectively ruined Mr. Murray’s career, and marks an important milestone in the consideration of balancing privacy issues from Facebook and the need to preserve critical ESI during eDiscovery.

http://ediscoverysquad.com/files/Lester_v_Allied_Concrete_Final_Order.pdf

The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel has a good write-up on this, and what attorneys and clients should be concerned with to avoid this type of a sanction.

http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/18347/facebook-page-worth-your-job-e-discovery-and-spoliation-age-social-media

There are various archiving and eForensic tools such as Smarsh and X1Discovery that can help you in the process.   Smarsh is good for litigation readiness, and preserving all corporate social media related data.

X1 Discovery can be useful when a order is given by the court to preserve ESI, but capturing all of the Social Media Data for specific custodians.

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We are also testing Lexis Nexis Law pre-Discovery modules, which currently covers 4,145    file types.   To view those file types, click here:

http://ediscoverysquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/File-Type-Manager-LAW-1.xlsx

Law pre-Discovery has a module add in for advanced OCR which handles converting Asian characters to 16 bit unicode text.

Most eDiscovery software vendors support conversion of English and European languages into searchable PDF’s, we have found that many cannot properly OCR Asian character sets.

So, we developed some open source software that converts Asian character sets into searchable .PDF’s.   Contact us to get a copy of the free program.

Here is the compilation of the file types that have been tested by the iPro eCapture software that we are testing that includes over 750 file types:

http://ediscoverysquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/iPro-File-Types.xlsx

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Model Behavior: Federal and State Court Rules on E-Discovery e-discoverymatters.com ·Jeffrey Goodwin I am planning to provide comments to the local proposal here in Western Washington, which was brought to my attention by Emily Kelly from Morton & McGoldrick.

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