Description
This treatise is the result of a year-long collaboration among more than 50 leading corporate counsel, outside counsel, and service providers. It provides quick, cost-effective practical tips, checklists, and samples for managing the e-discovery process and includes extensive chapters on litigation readiness, team development, and best practices. Each chapter is applicable for an enterprise environment, as well as for outside counsel. It provides ample citations and includes suggestions from leading magistrate judges hearing electronic discovery disputes and shaping written opinions.
Features
- Includes a selective glossary and materials from the Sedona Conference
- Includes checklists to help boards of directors avoid liability
- Includes updated state rules section with tables for proposed and completed rules
- Offers human resource-ready job descriptions for e-discovery directors and technology counsel
- Provides an introduction with contributions from several magistrate judges
- Provides contributions from more than 20 outside counsel, including Wachtell, Dickstein, Wilkie, Cadwalader, Hunton, Jones Day, Dorsey, and others
- Offers successful strategies and tactics from inside counsel, records managers, information technology professionals, and paralegals
- Provides topic-area specifics, e.g., e-discovery for intellectual property, antitrust, employment, and privacy