Baltimore City Gov’t Responds to E-Mail Overload
City to delete its old e-mail: “After 90 days, messages will be gone from system; Public-records questions raised; Workers will have to find and save official material.”
Category «E-Records»
Significant Corporate Problems With Records Retention
Press release from AIIM: American Companies Fail To Address Retention of Email and Electronic Records – Survey Finds “e-Records” Policies Non-Existent in Almost Half of Companies [Link] “Nearly half of American companies have not adopted records retention policies for email and other electronic documents, despite the serious issues raised about corporate records keeping over the …
E-Discovery Blog
Alextronic Discovery: “An Electronic Discovery Blog covering news, articles and thoughts for the legal and corporate community,” by Alex Lubarsky. The first posting was 11/09/03. (thanks Ben)
Microsoft Word Hidden Data, E-Records and Privacy
Microsoft issued a download for Office 2003/XP to allow users to”permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files.” An important issue in itself, made even more relevant when considered alongside this article by Preston Gralla, published yesterday, about the creation of …
Guidance on Record Retention
From the January 2004 issue of Law Practice Today: Electronic Document Retention Policies (And Why Your Clients Need Them).
A Quintet of Articles on Electronic Discovery Issues
From law.com: The Discovery Dance Data Collection Standards Can Your Old Files Come Back to Life? The Dilemma of Duplicates Raves for Two New EDD Books
New Guide to Electronic Discovery
Electronic Discovery and Evidence by Michael R. Arkfeld, with eight chapters on topics that include: the creation and storage of electronic information, Computer Forensics, Experts and Service Bureaus, Discovery and Production Process, and Court Procedural Rules and Case Law. See also Raves for Two New EDD Books
USPTO Expands Electronic Filing Services for Trademark Disputes
“The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has expanded the options for electronically filing documents in trademark disputes. Using the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA) system, parties to a dispute now can file more documents electronically with the TTAB, …
Microsoft and USPS Partner on Postmark App
From the USPS: “Just click the USPS EPM icon in the Microsoft Word toolbar, apply a USPS EPM to your document (contract, letter, agreement), and sign. This gives your document tamper protection against fraud and the ability to verify document authenticity with a click of the USPS EPM signature block.” Free for individual users who …
Privacy and Court Records
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, EPIC Deputy Counsel, will present the following paper, Public Records and Privacy (pdf), to the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges 77th Annual Meeting on October 17. He examines the rights and responsibilities of data collectors and data subjects in the evolving system of online public records.
Wired District Courts
AP published a list of the 26 (of the 94) district courts that currently provide electronic filing and case management.
NH Gov’t Moves From Paper to E-Records
This press release from New Hampshire Governor Craig Benson announces the implementation of E-Library Services, which will “enable viewing all agency reports that are generated by the States budget, financial and human resource computer systems. All such reports will be viewable in a web-browser by authorized users. The e-Info Library Services will be an official …
