Six Articles on Electronic - Craig Ball

Craig Ball © 2007
Musings on Electronic Discovery
“Ball in Your Court”
April 2005 – April 2007
The Law Technology News column “Ball in Your Court”
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© Craig Ball
The DNA of Data ........................................................................................................................ 66
Unclear on the Concept .............................................................................................................. 68
Cowboys and Cannibals ............................................................................................................. 71
Give Away Your Computer ......................................................................................................... 73
Don't Try This at Home ............................................................................................................... 75
Yours, Mine and Ouch! ............................................................................................................... 77
The Path to E-Mail Production .................................................................................................... 79
The Path to Production: Retention Policies That Work ............................................................... 82
The Path to Production: Harvest and Population ........................................................................ 85
The Path to Production: Are We There Yet? .............................................................................. 87
Locard’s Principle ....................................................................................................................... 89
A Golden Rule for E-Discovery ................................................................................................... 91
Data Recovery: Lessons from Katrina ........................................................................................ 93
Do-It-Yourself Digital Discovery .................................................................................................. 95
Function Follows Form ............................................................................................................... 97
Rules of Thumb for Forms of ESI Production ........................................................................... 100
Ten Common E-Discovery Blunders ......................................................................................... 103
Ten Tips to Clip the Cost of E-Discovery .................................................................................. 105
Copy That? ............................................................................................................................... 108
In Praise of Hash ...................................................................................................................... 111
Santa@NorthPole.com ............................................................................................................. 113
Unlocking Keywords ................................................................................................................. 115
Climb the Ladder ...................................................................................................................... 118
Vista Changes the View for EDD .............................................................................................. 120
Getting to the Drive ................................................................................................................... 123
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