Records Management - The Complexity of Metadata - from EDRM.net (December 2006)

Legal Stories: a look back at 2006 from the Jacksonville Daily Record (December 25, 2006). Electronic data confidentiality issues started raising ethical and technological questions for the legal community, in particular metadata. Read article

How to use Metadata as an Examination Tool by The E-Legal Lawyer (December 20, 2006) "...knowledge of the electronic discovery evidence is crucial to any attorney hoping to retain clients..."

New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to Electronically stored information - by Michele C.S. Lange, Esq. (December 1, 2006) Outlines the new FRCP rules effective Dec. 1, 2006

New Federal E-Discovery Rules Change Patent Litigation - Wolf Greenfield Law firm based in Boston writes how the new federal rules effect in particular, Intellectual Property litigation. Market Wire (November 30, 2006).

Legal Software Consulting LLC -Scrub cleans Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. It also works with Outlook, GroupWise, Lotus Notes, DOCSOpen, iManage and Worldox. Read more about iScrub in this Artical...(November 2006)

Preventing Metadata Disclosure - Editorial from the New Jersey Law Journal (November 29, 2006). Advises attorneys to practice caution when e-mailing documents to prevent the diclosure of confidential information

Find and remove metadata (hidden information) in your legal documents - from Microsoft Office Online Help "Legal professionals are familiar with the concept of "discovery" and the requirements set out by the courts for complying with discovery demands. They also understand that they are only required to provide the documents and data set out in the discovery demand. Unfortunately, if you are providing electronic versions of your documents, you may "discover" that you are inadvertently supplying more information than you realize."

How to minimize metadata in Word 2003 - Microsoft describes various methods to minimize the metadata in Word documents. This article presents the case for a metadata management tool.

White Paper – MS Office Metadata - Microsoft Bookmarks – By Randall Farrar Microsoft Word has a powerful feature called Bookmarks. A Microsoft Word Bookmark tags a position or selection of text that you name for future reference in a document. But did you know that bookmarks can contain metadata? (November 2006)

The Devil in the Metadata - By Amanda Witherell. The San Francisco Bay Guardian (November 16, 2006). The City of San Francisco to decide whether city departments shoudl release e-documents that include metadata.

White Paper – MS Office Metadata – Document Variables – by Randall Farrar In Knowledge Base article 825576 Microsoft lists many potential metadata risk elements, and among those elements are document variables. This document explains why document variables are a potential risk (November 2006)

Lawyers Receiving Electronic Documents are Free to Examine 'Hidden' Metadata: ABA Ethics Opinion - by Nancy Slonim (November 9, 2006). Lawyers who receive electronic documents are free to look for and use information hidden in metadata - information embedded in electronically produced documents - even if the documents were provided by an opposing lawyer, according to a new ethics opinion from the American Bar Association

E-discovery.org – a site featuring articles by Dennis Kennedy, Evans Schaeffer & Tom Mighell to help laws firms and attorneys to assist with navigating Electronic Discovery challenges

Welcome to DiscoveryResources.org, where you will find the most up-to-date information, resources and news available about electronic discovery. Given the rapidly increasing importance of electronic evidence in litigation, DiscoveryResources.org offers much needed resources for legal professionals who seek to understand the many new technological and legal challenges associated with electronic discovery

Microsoft: Invisible Ink and Your Documents – ABA Technology Resource Center. Article by Catherine Sanders Reach, and presentation (August 22, 2006). Explains the different types of metadata, and the consequences of not removing this information before documents are published or e-mailed to outside sources.

EDD Showcase: Avoid Metadata Disasters – by Donna Payne (Law Technology News August 2006) Metadata is information stored within a document that is not evident by just looking at the document. It may include identifying characteristics, such as the author, the name of individuals who have viewed and edited the file, the location from which the file was accessed, and even the amount of time spent editing the document. Metadata management applications, such as iScrub, help firms avoid metadata disasters.

The Risks of Metadata – by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Cananda July 2006)

Over the past several years, there have been a number of incidents in which “document metadata” has caused professional and political embarrassment. The metadata reveals, sometimes to the contrary of public assertions, how, when and by whom a document was created and into whose hands it travelled. In this fact sheet, we look at the risks associated with metadata and we offer some suggestions on how you can minimize those risks. Read more about the risks of metadata...

White Paper - Metadata Management in Microsoft Office: How Firms Can Protect Themselves against Unintentional Disclosure and Misuse of Metadata – By Randall Farrar and Susan McClellan (May 2006)

What's the Meta with Metadata? – article from the ABA on the ethical implications of Metadata Eye on Ethics section (January 2006) Article on the ethical implications of leaving metadata in a document and how that could compromise the client's position if they were revealed to the other side

USA Today – Remove hidden data in Microsoft Word Documents By Kim Komando (January 19, 2006) “You probably e-mail business letters, resumes and personal documents as Word documents. But you may be telling people things that would make your hair curl. Unless you take extra steps, recipients of Word documents can easily see items deleted or modified”

EDD Showcase Law Technology News (January 2006) – Understanding Metadata by Craig Ball – An article on metadata