Mark Lyon

eDiscovery Attorney

Archive / February 2016

February 24, 2016

The Basics of eDiscovery

The team at Exterro has assembled an incredibly helpful group of resources with their “Basics of E-Discovery” website.  They’ve broken the entire process into several chapters and even included a helpful list of external resources (including my site) for additional learning. Each day, numerous attorneys find themselves facing new challenges as they work to address eDiscovery …

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February 23, 2016

How Contract Attorneys Should Approach Downtime

Lake Louise, Canada by Roberto Nickson

Because of the project-based nature of the work, contract attorneys must constantly consider the potential for downtime, both planned and unplanned. In the eDiscovery context, for example, preliminary searches may set expectations for a large, long-term project but skillful negotiation and adjustment of search terms (or the use of analytics), entire populations can disappear overnight. Suddenly, a …

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