Discovery Resources

Judge Grimm’s decision in the Victor Stanley case has a chilling effect on lawyers who craft their own key word searches, absent advice from experts who can provide quality assurance and quality control. Read Craig Ball’s article about it (registration required).

The July 2008 edition of the ABA Journal provides insight into the judicial view of e-discovery: “When electronic discovery disputes get heated in his courtroom, Magis­trate Judge David J. Waxse of the U.S. District Court in Kansas has a simple strategy: “If someone comes to me and says, ‘So and so is impossible to deal with continue…

Slowly but surely, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm is writing a treatise on electronic discovery. H. Christopher Boehning and and Daniel J. Toal discuss Judge Grimm’s recent rulings around privilege and his comments on search methodologies in the New York Law Journal.

Federal Magistrate Judge John Facciola is a remarkable fellow….But his most heretical act may be his observation in United States v. O’Keefe, No. 06-249 (D.D.C. Feb. 18, 2008), that keyword search of ESI is a topic “clearly beyond the ken of a layman.” Read more by Craig Ball on Law Technology News & Law.com.

Click here for the (”lightly edited”) transcript from the Philip D. Reed Lecture Series panel discussion held April 17, 2007 at Fordham University School of Law.  Panelists included Hon. Lee H. Rosenthal Judge, Southern District of Texas and Hon. James C. Francis IV Judge, Southern District of New York.