What's New in e-Discovery
Jason R. Baron wrote a guest blog, DESI, Sedona and Barcelona, in Ralph Losey's blog e-Discovery Team. In the blog, Jason Reports from the DESI III Global E-Discovery/E-Disclosure Workshop at ICAIL 2009 and The Sedona Conference® International Programme on Cross Border E-Discovery and Privacy. He reports on many of the individual presentations and has some great links.
Jason reports a familiar refrain, being prepared for the Rule 26 "meet and confer" and his interesting study on "asymmetric preparation" for the meeting. He also discusses the use of testing e-discovery plans before launching full fledged e-discovery, a procedure similar to Judge Shira Scheindlin’s "Rolling Discovery" that I reported on previously.
Another trend among the presentations was the use of clustering techniques reduce the size of the ESI that has to be reviewed.
What encouraged me most about these conferences is the genuine sharing of researchers with practitioners-attorneys. From my experience of 40 years in academe, I know that such collaborations between theoretical research and practitioner are not a given.
I'm interested in hearing from attorneys who have been through an e-discovery case. What worked? What didn't work? What will you do differently next time?
