Tom Allman is everywhere. As our legal community rationalizes our practices (rules), he will be one of the main reasons that the rules in different jurisdictions are as harmonized as they are now. There are distinct differences that can be exploited, but they are more nuances than wholesale differences.

An excerpt from the great coverage of [1] Sean Doherty:

Thomas Y. Allman kicked off the LegalTech conference in New York discussing rule-making and best practices in e-discovery. E-discovery is exploding in direct proportion to the amount of electronically stored information available in litigation — and is being fueled by the tremendous growth of e-mail as a business record. The watchwords to take away from this keynote were “collaboration” and “proportionality.”