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Reported by:  Darius Champion and Gregory P. Bufithis

24 October 2012 –  Jérôme Kerviel’s attempt to overturn a prison sentence was thrown out of court today after a Paris judge rejected the former Société Générale trader’s appeal.  Mireille Filippini, the Paris court judge, upheld the rogue trader’s 2010 five-year sentence — three years in prison and two suspended — and ordered him to repay SocGen the €4.9bn of losses incurred by his risky bets.

We had covered the case extensively because it had a multitude of e-discovery and compliance issues [ click here ].

Judge Filippini rejected Mr Kerviel’s appellate argument that SocGen knew about his €50bn of open bets made in 2008 and tried to use them to mask subprime losses.  “It is clear that Société Générale was a victim of these crimes which Jérôme Kerviel was the sole conceiver,” according to the judge’s ruling. “Société Générale is entitled to recover the full amount of the financial harm resulting from unwinding this position.”  However, the judge stopped short … Read more

With the increased interest from the legal community on the e-discovery technique of technology assisted review, we provide below a compilation of articles, opinions and explanations related to the theory, practice and interpretation of this increasingly prevalent and certainly relevant discovery discipline.  The list is provided in cooperation with Orange Legal Technologies,  a leading provider of electronic discovery litigation, audit, and investigation services for law firms and corporations.

More specifically, it is produced by Rob Robinson, the Vice President for Marketing at Orange LT and as most of us know the Master Sensei Social Media Guru of the e-discovery world.  We have worked with him for years in producing our weekend “Top 20 plus more”.

The great thing about this list is that Rob keeps updating it with his own research and findings, plus our contributions.  And next week we will augment it once again with a look at the neuroscience behind predictive coding.

And do not get lost in the Da Silva case links (which sometimes seems to be the ONLY issue or topic in e-discovery … Read more