Legal Updates

Last year, in In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois laid out a very detailed protocol for conducting TAR that can serve as a go-by for parties wishing to conduct TAR in their own litigation. If you are considering implementing TAR in your next review, you may want to take a look at this. 

This blog is part one of several regarding how to effectively and efficiently manage electronic discovery in large, complex litigation. It is in these types of matters that special attention to electronic discovery is crucial to the client’s overall success. We begin here with the earliest stages: data identification and preservation.  

Managing a document review that contains foreign language documents and utilizes foreign language reviewers comes with its own set of unique challenges. In this article I provide insight into my experience managing a foreign language review (while not speaking the foreign language) and lessons I learned along the way.

One effective way to limit the scope of discovery, reduce confusion and ensure consistent deliverables (thereby reducing costs) is to enter into an ESI agreement with opposing parties. This article will provide some guidelines for these ESI agreements, what they should include and how best to leverage them for your benefit.

This past summer, Kilpatrick Townsend Senior E-Discovery Attorney Katie King participated in an E-Discovery Sanctions webinar, where she shared practice tips to protect your clients and your reputation.  Learn more about those tips here.

This is Part Two of a series on the perils of redacting non-responsive but sensitive material during pre-trial discovery. In Part One, we focused on cases against non-responsive redactions. In Part Two, we shift to cases allowing non-responsive redactions and provide our conclusory thoughts.