Discovery Resources

Judicial tolerance for shortcomings in e-discovery is on the decline, and litigants, their counsel and e-discovery vendors are facing direct liability for such failures. Read more….

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.

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went on a publicity tour for his book on legal writing earlier this year, it was considered a rare peek into the mind of an influential jurist. This article by Jason Krause on Law.com discusses how few litigation topics have gotten the judiciary talking as much as e-discovery.

Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm and attorneys Paul Mark Sandler and Charles S. Fax, whose second book, entitled “Maryland Discovery Problems and Solutions,” address the issues around discovery and privilege in this article by Brandon Kearney from the Maryland Daily Record.

A federal judge in Maryland ruled late last month that a company being sued for copyright infringement waived attorney-client privilege for 165 documents accidentally disclosed to opposing counsel during the e-discovery process. Read more from Computerworld’s Brian Fonseca here.