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Good RIM practices: A key ingredient for e-discovery

Records and information management (RIM) professionals know the many benefits of good RIM practices.  They also know that benefits such as fast, efficient information retrieval and the on-time and secure disposition of valueless records are particularly important for organizations preparing for civil litigation. The importance of good RIM practices to successful electronic discovery (e-discovery) in civil litigation is reinforced

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December 13, 2012 No Comments
admissibility

“Received. Thanks, Mike” – 3 simple words with big consequences

Most Canadian records and information management (RIM) professionals have heard about the Zubulake v. UBS Warburg litigation presided over by Judge Shira Scheindlin in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  But what you may not know is how a simple e-mail that would typically be considered a transitory record (or perhaps a non-record) provided a key piece of evidence for establishing the timeline critical to Ms. Zubulake’s victory.

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December 4, 2012 No Comments
admissibility

The Admissibility of Electronic Records in Canada – November 22 – Charlottetown, PEI

On November 22nd, the ARMA Prince Edward Island Chapter (ARMA PEI) will hold an education seminar on records as evidence and e-discovery. In the morning, I will present on the admissibility of electronic records in Canada.  This session will review the provisions for using electronic records in Canada and PEI, Canadian requirements for the admissibility of electronic records as

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September 2, 2012 No Comments
Self Destructing Email
e-discovery

What will they think of next? Self destructing e-mail

For the past few years, technology gurus have been developing software to allow an e-mail message to vanish or become unreadable after a certain length of time or upon the sender’s request.  There are two types of self destructing e-mail software. The first type is retractable e-mail such as the Gmail Labs (the testing ground for Gmail features) “undo

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September 2, 2012 No Comments
Text Messages as Evidence
e-discovery

Yes, text messages can be evidence

Bloomberg Businessweek reports that a former BP engineer, Kurt Mix, was charged with two counts of obstruction of justice for intentionally destroying evidence requested by US authorities about the size of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill resulting from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. According to a New York Times News Service story, Mr. Mix allegedly deleted

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September 2, 2012 No Comments

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    Often the requirement for a needs assessment is driven by a specific initiative being considered or an immediate problem to be solved, rather than a general desire to establish a corporate (or organization-wide) IM program. We had a client wanting to improve its management of a specific group of critical records – thousands of member files in paper, microform and digital formats containing hundreds of unique document types.
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