Alex Jones Trial: Lessons Learned About E-Discovery. — Transcript

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1. 0:16so we if you unless you've been a hermit
2. 0:18for the last month you probably heard
3. 0:20about the alex jones defamation trial
4. 0:24um and this is not going to be a
5. 0:25political discussion
6. 0:27but it's going to be an evidentiary
7. 0:28legal discussion during that trial
8. 0:31regardless of how you feel about the
9. 0:33plaintiff or the defendant in that case
10. 0:34that was a civil case not a criminal
11. 0:36case
12. 0:37civil cases or lawsuits civil cases are
13. 0:39what we handle at zarzar law but during
14. 0:41that trial it became clear that alex
15. 0:45jones's lawyers accidentally turned over
16. 0:48an electronic file
17. 0:50that had text messages from alex jones
18. 0:53that he had already said he didn't have
19. 0:55and there were multiple years of text
20. 0:57messages
21. 0:58those text messages were
22. 1:01inappropriately if you will
23. 1:04produced or weren't intended to be
24. 1:06produced
25. 1:07and the reason that that happens
26. 1:09sometimes
27. 1:11is that this electronic discovery
28. 1:15documents that are kept
29. 1:16on electronic files
30. 1:19they sometimes become hard to separate
31. 1:22from
32. 1:22from documents that are
33. 1:24eligible for production in a case and
34. 1:27those that are not and they since they
35. 1:28all come into the law office as one file
36. 1:32you have to break the file up into
37. 1:35separate components in order to pick and
38. 1:37parse what is producible or what is
39. 1:40going to be produced and what is not
40. 1:41going to be produced and it looks like
41. 1:44somebody either at the firm of the law
42. 1:46the law firm that was handling alex
43. 1:48jones's defense or the lawyer or
44. 1:50somebody did not make sure that the file
45. 1:53was trimmed so as to only include
46. 1:57the things that meant to be produced
47. 2:00that can happen
48. 2:02in any case if you're not sure that the
49. 2:05law firm that you're hiring is crossing
50. 2:08the t's and dotting the eyes in regards
51. 2:10to the discovery in a piece of
52. 2:12litigation so
53. 2:14make sure you hire a board-certified
54. 2:17civil trial lawyer to handle your injury
55. 2:19case because you can count on the fact
56. 2:21that somebody is board certified by the
57. 2:23florida bar in civil trial
58. 2:26knows how to make sure they don't
59. 2:28produce things that are not
60. 2:31eligible for production or not that
61. 2:33shouldn't be produced
62. 2:35if you have questions about a lawsuit a
63. 2:37personal injury case you can find us on
64. 2:39the web at zargerlaw.com or you can call
65. 2:41us at 855 hire joe thank you
66. 2:54[Music]
67. 3:01you