Today, I spoke at my firm’s semi-annual Labor & Employment seminar on seemingly everyone’s favorite topic lately: social media. We had a huge crowd today and had a lot of audience participation. I know I speak for my whole department in thanking those who attended.
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Your Most Important Witness in Defending an Employment Discrimination Claim? Your IT Staff?
By Daniel Schwartz on
Posted in Discrimination & Harassment, Litigation
As I mentioned Monday, I had the opportunity to attend ABA Techshow, one of the premier technology and the law conferences around.
E-Discovery (or "Electronic Discovery") continues to be a hot topic at such conferences.
(Discovery is the process by which parties to a lawsuit exchange and receive information before a trial. The most common…
You’ve Been Sued; What Phrases Are “Hot” for Electronic Discovery Searches?
By Daniel Schwartz on
Posted in Human Resources (HR) Compliance
UPDATED 12/3/08
During this decade, electronic discovery has moved from the fringes into the mainstream when litigating employment law claims.
What does this mean? In many cases, employers must now run keyword searches and other types of searches on their computer systems to find information that might be relevant to the lawsuit at issue.
But what search…