Welcome to the ESI Ninja blog.  You may be asking yourself, “Why ‘ESI Ninja?’”  Good question.

• “ESI” — because I’m interested in digital data, which litigators (prompted by the December 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) often refer to as “electronically stored information.”
• And “Ninja” — well, frankly, “dude” might have been a more natural choice, since I grew up in the Easy Rider era, when we called one another “dude” without meaning to refer to guys who vacationed at “dude ranches”.  But ever since the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges’ character has owned the title “dude”; and I saw an article last year in the Wall Street Journal about “ninja” replacing “guru” in the Silicon Valley tech biz, so . . . “ninja” it was.

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