Jim Calloway has a terrific round up post on the ethics of lawyers accessing meta data. Jim starts by explaining what meta data is (it’s basically data about data, embedded in your documents) and how to access it.  He then cites the various views on meta data, on the one hand, the Florida Bar’s initial opinion that mining meta is unethical and comments from the blogosphere that take an opposing view (in fact, apparently Jim’s home state isn’t adverse to using meta data, Jim point out that “[mining meta data] is unethical in Florida and we’re teaching it in Oklahoma [at a course on e-discovery].

From what I can tell, lawyers, at least in my neck of the woods, have caught on to this problem.  I do check meta data in documents (I can admit that since I don’t practice in Florida) – and I’ve noticed that documents that I’ve received in the past few months have been cleansed.   Based on this, it seems that Jim’s sensible approach of “focus[ing] on not sending out
metadata rather than enacting new ethical rules”  is already working.

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Dear Carolyn:
I just read your article on meta-data and I found it interesting. I just filed a brief in federal court in Florida asking for permission to mine meta-data of an adversary to determine that their pleadings are being ghost-written. This seems like a very hot area of the law.
Thanks for the article.
Eric N. Assouline
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Dear Carolyn:
I just read your article on meta-data and I found it interesting. I just filed a brief in federal court in Florida asking for permission to mine meta-data of an adversary to determine that their pleadings are being ghost-written. This seems like a very hot area of the law.
Thanks for the article.
Eric N. Assouline
ASSOULINE & BERLOWE, P.A.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
213 E. Sheridan Street, Suite 3
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
Telephone: 954-929-1899
Facsimile: 954-922-6662
http://www.assoulineberlowe.com
With Additional Offices at:
3250 Mary Street, Suite 308
Miami, Florida 33133
Telephone: 305-567-5576
Facsimile: 305-567-9343

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Metadata Primers: Mysteries, Magic and Pitfalls.

Jim Calloway at his Law Practice Tips Blog has an instructive and important post and Carolyn Elefant at My Shingle has an equally thoughtful post on metadata. These are both an alert and a call to arms of sorts. And…

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Metadata Primers: Mysteries, Magic and Pitfalls.

Jim Calloway at his Law Practice Tips Blog has an instructive and important post and Carolyn Elefant at My Shingle has an equally thoughtful post on metadata. These are both an alert and a call to arms of sorts. And…

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Metadata Primers: Mysteries, Magic and Pitfalls.

Jim Calloway at his Law Practice Tips Blog has an instructive and important post and Carolyn Elefant at My Shingle has an equally thoughtful post on metadata. These are both an alert and a call to arms of sorts. And…

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Metadata Primers: Mysteries, Magic and Pitfalls.

Jim Calloway at his Law Practice Tips Blog has an instructive and important post and Carolyn Elefant at My Shingle has an equally thoughtful post on metadata. These are both an alert and a call to arms of sorts. And…

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