FloridaLawFirm.com is an information resource by e-discovery attorney and technologist, Ralph Losey, to help bridge the knowledge gap between the disciplines of Law and Information Science. Only when Law and IT work together can the challenges of electronic discovery be met.
ralphlosey.worldpress.com, Losey's e-Discovery Blog. Keep up with the latest news and trends in e-Discovery.
www.e-discoveryteam.com, Home Page for Akerman's e-Discovery Team. Our web includes a password protected area restricted to clients and Team members only.
www.akerman.com, Akerman Senterfitt's web, including a description of the e-Discovery Team.
www.floridalawfirm.com, Ralph Losey's personal law web, the first legal web in Florida.
Top Trends in e-Discovery, A reprint of one of Ralph's more popular blogs.
www.thesedonaconference.org An educational group very influential in creating the standards of e-Discovery
www.edrm.net The Electronic Discovery Reference Model Project; a non-profit industry group influential in creating vendor standards.
www.fjc.gov Federal Judicial Center; see the link for Electronic Discovery on the title page of Educational Programs and Materials, for a wealth of materials
www.discoveryresources.org e-discovery news and more
www.electronicdiscoveryblog.com, a good e-Discovery Blog by Larry Wescott
www.ediscoverylaw.com, an excellent Blog with e-discovery case updates by KL Gates
www.commonscold.typepad.com, Monica Bay's Blog "The Common Scold"
www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/edd.jsp EDD section of Law.com. Good general resource
www.forensics.com/html/trng_edu_articles.html Collection of Articles and White Papers by Computer Forensics, including Finding and Using Electronic Data, by Joan Feldman
www.arkfeld.blogs.com A blog by e-discovery text book author Michael Arkfeld
www.irch.com Information requirements Clearinghouse for info, software, training on information retention policies and practices
www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc, American Bar Association Technology Resource Center
cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/library.html Information from the Digital Discovery team of Harvard Law School students
www.lawyerlounge.com/ediscovery/index.php, Lawyer Lounge section on e-Discovery with more good links.
www.technology.findlaw.com/electronic-discovery/ FindLaw for Legal Professionals section on electronic discovery.
www.legalonramp.com This is a high quality social network site for lawyers which is by invitation only. Has a strong e-discovery component. I hang out there most every week. Write me for an invite.
www.computer.org Web for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "IEEE" Computer Society; where true computing professionals go for information)
www.pewinternet.org About the Internet and American life, cited by Sedona; keep up with latest trends
www.computerworld.com Good general site referred to by Sedona, and read by CIOs and their staff; run a search on e-Discovery and get over 12,000 hits.
www2.sims.berkeley.edu, School of Information management at the University of California, Berkeley. An excellent site for statistics on the amount of electronic data in today's world.
www.iso.org - International Organization for Standards, including records management
www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php - nonprofit global consortium dedicated to developing e-business standards
www.fiosinc.com/events/webcasts.html FIOS Electronic Discovery group
www.acc.com Association of Corporate Counsel
www.abanet.org/cle/ American Bar Association
http://www.krollontrack.com/ediscovery Kroll Ontrack
Ken Withers, www.kenwithers.com, Main educator of the federal judiciary on electronic discovery, now with Sedona.
Craig Ball, www.craigball.com Lawyer, expert witness, consultant, special master, writer and educator. See his great list of links too.
ralphlosey.worldpress.com, The blog behind the books by Ralph Losey, called e-Discovery Team.
Ben Edelman, www.benedelman.or, An expert witness on Internet and spyware issues
Dennis Kennedy, www.denniskennedy.com Legal technology in general
Journal of Technology Law and Policy, University of Florida Law School Journal. They have a complete listing of similar law school journals at grove.ufl.edu/~techlaw/links/index.html
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Good articles on a variety of topics, including intellectual property, biotechnology, e-commerce, cybercrime, the Internet, telecommunications, and evidentiary technology.
Stanford Technology Law Review, A forum for intellectual discourse on critical issues at the intersection of law, science, technology, and public policy.
Federal Courts Law Review, The content is not limited to technology, but includes many e-discovery articles of note. It is an on-line law review edited by our federal judiciary with the help of academics and the Charleston School of Law. A good one for anyone practicing in district courts to know about.
www.west.thomson.com/ediscovery/ West Thompson Books on e-Discovery.
www.krollontrack.com, Electronic discovery leader
www.engeniumsearch.com, Concept search engine company which is now part of Kroll Ontrack.
www.navigantconsulting.com, a leading consultant in this area.
www.cataphora.com, Vendor for management and analysis of electronic data
www.eedinc.com, Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. founded in 1987
www.lexisnexis.com/applieddiscovery, Lexis-owned Applied Discovery
Wave Software, De-Duplicate, Review, Re-Generate Software
www.pss-systems.com, ATLAS Software for Litigation Hold Management
www.guidancesoftware.com, Guidance Software, makers of EnCase
www.litigex.com, Computer Forensics and Analysis by attorney Andy Reisman and his team of techs
www.etginc, Emerging Technologies Group; e-discovery and expert witnesses
www.encorelegal.com, e-discovery support services
www.attenex.com, conceptual visualization e-discovery software
www.clearwellsystems.com, Investigations and Search Software
www.renewdata.com. Full service e-discovery vendor.
www.iconect.com. litigation support and collaboration software.
www.beeblebrox.org/hashtab/ Get free Hash here! Look for an article soon by Ralph Losey that explains hash and hashing, a mathematical computer process for identifying and preserving electronic evidence. This site provides software where you can hash any file and thereby detect whether it has been altered. The price is right and it works well on individual files.
www.guidancesoftware.com/products/ef_index.asp, EnCase Forensic Software; most experts' favorite (about 80% market share)
www.accessdata.com/products/, Forensic Toolkit; second most favorite; the one we use
www.stratify.com, Software to filter, search and review e-documents; now a part of Iron Mountain
www.accessdata.com, Password cracking, disk cleaning
www.grc.com, Repair and recover hard drives
www.payneconsulting.com, Excellent metadata wiper for sharing documents
www.metalincs.com, e-discovery software for law firms
www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/, Many programs to try out on EDD
An excellent explanation of Rule 26 by Iron Mountain's John Cleese:
Rule 37(f) Safe Harbor - an animated interpretation: