Archive for December 2022

Happy New Year 2023!

The K&L Gates e-DAT Group send its best wishes to all for an amazing New Year!

LexisNexis Practice Note – “E-discovery: Planning for and Conducting E-discovery (WA)”

Focusing on procedural rules and case law particular to Washington, Julie Anne Halter (Partner and e-DAT Practice Group Co-Chair) and Bree Kelly (e-DAT Senior Staff Lawyer) provide practical guidance for the state’s legal practitioners on each step of the e-discovery process in their recent LexisNexis Practice Note. The Practice Note identifies relevant superior court civil rules […]

425 Business Article – “Collaboration Conundrum: Casual Connectivity Can Create Legal Risks”

Reflecting on the new enterprise collaboration and remote work technologies adopted by many employers, Julie Anne Halter (Partner and e-DAT Practice Group Co-Chair) outlines a number of related legal consideration and risks associated with these technologies in a 425 Business article published this week. In her article, Julie Anne highlights how such technologies can present […]

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998: Protection for the US’s Youngest Data Subjects

A number of recent state regulations address privacy rights for consumers of all ages, but there is no equivalent federal law protecting all consumer’s privacy rights. That being said, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA,” at 15 U.S. Code §6501 et seq.) provides some federal protection for data subjects under 13 years […]

Celebrating e-Discovery Day: e-Discovery Exchange with Ellen Blanchard

Today we celebrate World e-Discovery Day, an annual industry-wide event for lawyers and legal professionals to highlight the critical role e-discovery plays in our legal systems. To mark this occasion, the K&L Gates e-Discovery Analysts & Technology (“e-DAT”) Group is launching a series of Q&A videos with e-discovery industry veterans. In the first episode in […]

Welcome Back to Ediscoverylaw.com!

The K&L Gates e-Discovery Analysts & Technology (“e-DAT”) Group has spent the last few weeks adding additional content and making a number of revisions and updates to our ediscoverylaw.com website.  You’ll see that this website now relies on a blog format, which still allows for identifying particular e-discovery case summaries through keyword searches and category […]