Heuristica Congratulates Harry Chang on Relativity Certification

Heuristica is pleased to congratulate Harry Chang, Associate, on passing the Relativity Review Management Specialist exam.

The Relativity Review Management Specialist certification demonstrates a review manager’s ability to monitor and review team efficiency and accuracy, streamline review processes and report on the status of document reviews.

Both the legal and technical teams at Heuristica have achieved distinction as being amongst the most highly certified RelativityOne organizations in the world. Multiple Relativity certifications have been achieved for the following:

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eDiscovery Issues: Spoliation and Intent

Harry Chang

Associate

October 28, 2021

In a recent US decision, Cretacci v. Hare, No.: 4:19-CV-55-SKL (E.D. Tenn. Jan. 20, 2021), the court found that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the defendants intentionally deprived them of the video evidence of an alleged assault as required under Rule 37 of the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The defendants had received a written request to preserve the video evidence from the plaintiff’s counsel within 30 days of an alleged assault but took no reasonable measures to preserve the requested video, and the video was later deleted.… Read More

Is a De-activated Social Media Account Producible?

Harry Chang

Associate

October 6, 2021

The recent US decision in Brown v. SSA Atl., LLC, CV419-303 (S.D. Ga. Mar. 15, 2021) emphasizes the importance of understanding what constitutes spoliation in the context of social media evidence.

The plaintiff in this case was evasive about his social media presence on Facebook. The defendant initiated a motion for sanctions for “alleged spoliation of electronically stored evidence, specifically his social media accounts.” The court denied the spoliation motion ruling based on the lack of evidence that the Facebook information had been “irretrievably lost.” Instead of sanctions, the court directed the production of the Facebook accounts as an alternative remedy.… Read More