Is your law firm secure? On Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, welcome  Matt Kesner, the CIO of Fenwick & West LLP, a West Coast law firm representing high tech and bio-tech clients, to discuss securing your law firm’s data.  Matt talks about the current state of law firm information security in comparison to the rest of the business world, the dangers of taking smartphones and laptops into China and whether there is genuinely a “fix” for information security.

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Few battlegrounds have been as bloody as the grounds on which proportionality in e-discovery are fought. On Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises take a look at proportionality from across the pond. Sharon and John explore proportionality in the UK, the six proportionality principles from the Sedona Conference, the history of proportionality in the federal rules and recent rumblings in the courts.

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Want to find out more about “Meet and Confer Sessions?” On Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises welcome Texas attorney and e-discovery expert, David Chaumette, partner in the law firm of De La Rosa & Chaumette, to get an inside look at meet and confer sessions. David talks about who should attend a meet and confer session with opposing counsel, what steps you should take if you do not know the answer to an issue that arises during a session, what topics must be covered and how to best document your efforts prior to having to defend your actions in front of a judge!

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What’s hot in e-discovery right now?  On Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises welcome California attorney and e-discovery expert, Josh Gilliland, author of the Bow Tie Blog,  to discuss the five hottest topics in e-discovery today.  Josh takes a look at issues with the form of production,  litigation holds after the Pension Committee case, how small firms are surviving their entry into e-discovery, preservation of ESI and how to prove that an e-discovery request will cause an “undue burden.”

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Could your law firm be at risk?  On Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises welcome Rob Lee, a Director with the information security firm, Mandiant and the curriculum lead for digital forensic training at the SANS Institute, to discuss the deplorable state of law firm security and the rise of advanced persistent threats. Rob discusses how law firm security compares to other businesses, Advanced Persistent Threats, the concept of defense in depth and the importance of security assessments. Hacking into law firms is so easy that the Chinese don’t even waste their “A” teams on it – the junior squads can handle it. How secure is YOUR firm?

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Is it time to set some standards when it comes to quality searching in e-discovery?  On Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises welcome Jason R. Baron, the Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration, to talk about e-discovery searches and whether it is time to set some standards to ensure quality searches.  Jason talks about how best to search for electronic evidence in civil litigation, how searching has changed since the early days and also how the courts are handling thorny questions involving searches.  He also shares information on the upcoming DESI IV workshop.

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On this edition of Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, take a look at expert witnesses in e-discovery. Sharon and John include some of their own war stories and offer some tips on how to select and use expert witnesses.

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On this edition of Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, welcome David Ries, a partner at Thorp Reed & Armstrong in Pittsburgh, to discuss ethical issues in e-discovery. Sharon, John and Dave take a look at the “five Cs” in e-discovery, the most common ethical violation in e-discovery and ensuring that attorneys comply with their ethical duties with respect to e-discovery.

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On this edition of Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, talk about a new and horrifying development in the world of electronic evidence-Sexting and Sextortion. Sharon and John look at protecting children from the dangers of technology, brand-new anti-sexting technologies, legislative initiatives and the conversation parents should be having with their children about these issues.

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Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about the need to archive websites and social media. On this edition of Digital Detectives, co-hosts Sharon D. Nelson, Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc. and John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, welcome Chase Reeves, the director of marketing at Iterasi, to take a look at  the archiving of social media sites for compliance and e-discovery purposes. Sharon, John and Chase look at the challenges of social media archiving, the status of archiving video and blogs, and what the future holds for social media archiving.

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