http://www.discoveryresources.org/electronic-discovery-community/e-lessons-learned/comm-coop-conf/ Electronic Discovery (E-Discovery) Resources, News & Information Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:04:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.discoveryresources.org/electronic-discovery-community/e-lessons-learned/comm-coop-conf/#comment-503 Patrick Ryan Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:16:16 +0000 http://www.discoveryresources.org/?p=533#comment-503 I wonder whether counsels' reliance on boilerplate requests and objections was the result of inexperience with e-discovery and electronic information, in general. Many attorneys have little experience with the process and have relied primarily on discovery of "hard" documents throughout their careers. In this case, perhaps the attorneys were not so much uncooperative as they were uninformed. I wonder whether counsels’ reliance on boilerplate requests and objections was the result of inexperience with e-discovery and electronic information, in general. Many attorneys have little experience with the process and have relied primarily on discovery of “hard” documents throughout their careers. In this case, perhaps the attorneys were not so much uncooperative as they were uninformed.

]]> http://www.discoveryresources.org/electronic-discovery-community/e-lessons-learned/comm-coop-conf/#comment-498 Evan Harris Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:14:27 +0000 http://www.discoveryresources.org/?p=533#comment-498 It's interesting how common sense and common decency sometime get overlooked in the litigation process. Of course the parties would have been better off discussing what kinds of discovery requests were actually necessary for the case before requesting the moon. Unfortunately, in this case (and I’m sure in many others), the parties took the adversarial system too far. They ended up spending a lot of unnecessary time and money by requesting everything and objecting to everything. As Judge Grimm noted, the parties could have saved themselves a lot of aggravation (and money) if they thought before acting and sat down to discuss what was actually necessary. It’s interesting how common sense and common decency sometime get overlooked in the litigation process. Of course the parties would have been better off discussing what kinds of discovery requests were actually necessary for the case before requesting the moon. Unfortunately, in this case (and I’m sure in many others), the parties took the adversarial system too far. They ended up spending a lot of unnecessary time and money by requesting everything and objecting to everything. As Judge Grimm noted, the parties could have saved themselves a lot of aggravation (and money) if they thought before acting and sat down to discuss what was actually necessary.

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