E-Lessons Learned


The blog focuses on e-discovery best practices and issues.

Author: The blog's founder is Fernando M. Pinguelo, a partner at Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus and an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. The bloggers are all Seton Hall law students. Among them: Nima Ashtyani, Brian Biglin, April Fabregat-LeBlanc and Andrew Ferencevych.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Students • Trials & Litigation • Evidence • Seton Hall University • Law Professor • Partner

Recent Posts from E-Lessons Learned


  • GPS Units: Not Just for Driving Directions Anymore

    Officer Keith James of the Coronado Police Department’s Task Force spotted Vincent Franklin Bennett’s boat travelling north near the U.S.-Mexico border on January 27, 2000. Upon boarding Bennett’s boat in San Diego Bay the officers…

  • UPCOMING EVENT: HBANJ Corporate Counsel Roundtable Series

    The Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey invites you to attend its third annual CORPORATE COUNSEL ROUNDTABLE SERIES NOVEMBER 17, 2009 New Jersey Performing Arts Center | Newark, NJ | 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. View…

  • Data Retention Policies – Not Just a Method for Keeping Documents

    Imagine you are an executive of a computer company that keeps experiencing defects in what is known as a floppy disk controller (FDC), a part in most personal computers.  You decide that a technology needs…

  • Don’t Forget Your Metadata, The Burden Later May Be Too Much

    This case is a civil rights action brought by more than thirty Latino plaintiffs who allege that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the United States Department of Homeland Security and certain of its…

  • TREC Legal Track: On the Frontiers of E-discovery

    Unfortunately, the key word search is ineffective for e-discovery.  A keyword search often misses many of the relevant documents.  However, the keyword search is the current standard for searches. Does anything work short of hiring…

  • Send Company E-mails with Caution… No Matter What!

    We’ve all said something we shouldn’t have…but writing the personal comment in an e-mail and sending it through your company’s e-mail system, is not the time and place. Factual Background Michael Smyth, an at-will employee…

  • Federal Government Launches Apps.Gov

    On September 22, Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, announced the launch of Apps.Gov, a website offering governmentally approved cloud computing applications, in the hopes of phasing out the government’s current, more expensive and difficult software.…

  • President Warns Students About Information They Share Online

    During his September 8 school speech, President Obama sternly warned teenagers about what information they post on the internet, specifically on their Facebook pages. He went further to recognize that mistakes are a natural part…

  • An Aside: Sifting Through The “Fog”

    Cloud Computing is an IT phenomenon that has been gaining notoriety in the world of technology.  Many of you may have heard of Amazon Web Services and Google Apps but not realized exactly what they…

  • Knock, knock… Who’s there? Fannie Mae… *SLAM*

    Despite feeling sorry for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (“OFHEO”) the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the district court’s finding of contempt against OFHEO. Background: In 2003, OFHEO completed an investigation of…