e-Discovery Insights


"Insights—with an emphasis on facilitating the relationship between legal and technology professionals."

Author: Perry L. Segal has both a solo law practice, Charon Law, and a consulting practice, Charon Solutions Inc., in El Segundo, Calif.

Blawg Related Categories: Civil Procedure • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • Trials & Litigation • Evidence • States • California • Consultant • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from e-Discovery Insights


  • Privacy: There's Still Hope

    Wow. Four posts in a row on privacy? I think that's a record... But I have to be fair. The Wall Street Journal published this dissenting view on where the trend is headed. In fact,…

  • "A World without Anonymity"

    In this summary of five recent cases, CNN Tech asks, "Can the Law Keep Up with Technology?". Yeah, I know...I'm harping on privacy again...what can I say? Good things come in threes... My only other…

  • Case Got Your Tongue? Corrections, Cavalier Attitudes & Black Holes

    Our 'privacy' theme continues on... Like it or not, you don't enjoy the level of privacy you think you do, and copping an attitude about it only makes things worse. For example, I regularly caution…

  • Pop! Goes Your Privacy!

    Remember how I went on and on about the fact that what you do and say in your personal life (particularly online, after all this is an e-discovery blog) may become relevant in a legal…

  • This is Just Plain Scary...

    ...to the point that I didn't even want to come up with a catchy title. Just read the lead-in to this story from the Associated Press: "Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do,…

  • A Rare (Your)Honor

    So, there I was Wednesday evening at my monthly L.A. County Bar Association Litigation Inn of Court gathering. I'm standing in the buffet line and who ends up standing next to me? The Honorable Carl…

  • e-Discovery LOL: Ode to Discovery

    A poem for a Monday morning (author unknown)... Say it with candy, Say it flowers, Say it with gloves or with mink. Say it with diamonds, Say it with pearls, But never say it in…

  • Case Got Your Tongue? Arrest, Lies & Videotape

    Hat tip to my colleague William Hoffman... I thought I wasn't going to find anything relevant for my usual Friday post, but Peschel v. City of Missoula, 2009 WL 3364460 (D. Mont. Oct. 15, 2009)…

  • Run for the Border!

    For those who travel to and from the United States, I thought it would be useful to re-visit the revised DHS guidelines announced August 27, 2009. This article from the Canadian Bar Association sums it…

  • Check this Blog Hourly Unless in Court, in Tunnel or Asleep!!!

    Like it or not, our employers expect us to be 'available' at all hours, as this article indicates. A junior associate was chastised for not reading his email after-hours and missing an instruction from a…