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Whitepaper: eDiscovery and Search of Enterprise Data in the Cloud – From Hype to Reality

Despite the enormous cost benefits of the cloud, past concerns about the feasibility of eDiscovery and general search across an organization's critical cloud-resident data prevented broader adoption. The absence of effective enterprise search and the inability to perform eDiscovery on such data without first exporting it en masse significantly negated many of the cloud's overall benefits. This whitepaper examines the requirements of truly cloud-capable eDiscovery software and benefits of breakthrough solutions that perform eDiscovery as well as enterprise search of terabytes of cloud-based data where it resides and its implications for broader cloud adoption.
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Whitepaper: Legal Challenges to the Authentication of Social Media Evidence

Social media evidence is highly relevant to most legal disputes and broadly discoverable, but some challenges lie in evidentiary authentication without best practices technology and processes. This whitepaper examines these challenges faced by eDiscovery practitioners and investigators and illustrates best practices for collection, preservation, search and production of social media data.
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Published Cases: Involving Social Media Evidence (2010-2011)

There are 689 published cases where evidence from social networking sites played a significant role in state and federal court decisions, across the United States. X1 Discovery monitored online legal databases of state and federal court decisions, 2010 through 2011, to provide the complete list with full case listing.
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Product Brief: eDiscovery & Enterprise Search in the Cloud

X1 Rapid Discovery™ is a cloud and enterprise deployable, eDiscovery and search solution that enables corporations, consultants and law firms to quickly identify, search, and collect distributed data wherever it resides.
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Product Brief: eDiscovery Platform for Social Media and Website Collection

X1 Social Discovery™ is the industry's first investigative solution specifically designed to enable eDiscovery and computer forensics professionals to effectively address social media content.
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Issue Brief: Facebook Spoliation Costs Lawyer $522,000; Ends His Legal Career

In what many are calling the largest eDiscovery sanction penalty ever leveled directly against an attorney, a Virginia state judge ordered lawyer Matthew Murray to pay $522,000 for instructing his client to remove photos from his Facebook profile, and for his client to pay an additional $180,000 for obeying the instructions.
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Issue Brief: The Proper Method for Lawyers to "Follow" Jurors and Witnesses

Twitter continues to be a significant source of evidence in litigation and corporate investigation matters. A legal database search of published opinions reveals several dozen known cases recently involving Twitter-based evidence. In addition to providing key evidence in virtually every type of litigation matter, lawyers are increasingly using Twitter to investigate and monitor potential and empanelled jurors. However, this type of monitoring activity can lead to serious attorney ethics violations if improperly performed.
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