Historical Archive

Earlier professional writings, preserved with their original publication dates for research and historical context. Law, technology and terminology may have changed since publication.

This Historical Archive covers 2006–2017. For newer writing, or to search all years together, use the Complete Writing Index — all years.

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2017

  1. Judge Peck Orders All Lawyers in NY to Follow the Rules when Objecting to Requests for Production, or Else … (March 2017)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

2016

  1. Scientific Proof of Law’s Overreliance On Reason: The “Reasonable Man” is Dead and the Holistic Lawyer is Born (July 2016)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  2. The Law’s “Reasonable Man,” Judge Haight, Love, Truth, Justice, “Go Fish” and Why the Legal Profession Is Not Doomed to be Replaced by Robots (June 2016)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

2014

  1. Happy Holidays! (December 2014)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  2. Genius Bar at Georgetown (November 2014)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  3. Are You The Lit Support Tech? (August 2014)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  4. HEARTBLEED: A Lawyer’s Perspective On Cyber Liability and the Biggest Programming Error in History (April 2014)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  5. Judge John Facciola Exposes Justice Department’s Unconstitutional Search and Seizure of Personal Email (March 2014)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

2013

  1. Judge Grimm’s New Discovery Order Is Now An e-Discovery Best Practice – Part Two; with Postscript to Vendors on “Legal Software of the Future” (November 2013)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  2. Judge Grimm’s New Discovery Order Is Now An e-Discovery Best Practice – Part One (October 2013)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  3. Youth Dominated “Innovate Conference” Gives Us Hope for the Future (October 2013)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  4. Taking a Break from the World of Words (September 2013)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  5. Courts Struggle With Determining Reasonability of e-Discovery Vendor Bills (July 2013)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  6. Judge Waxse Enforces His Model Clawback Order (March 2013)

    Artificial Intelligencee-Discovery Team

  7. Never Heard of Star Trek’s Borg? (February 2013)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

2012

  1. Georgetown Part Three: Laughs About Logs and What Judges Don’t Like About You (December 2012)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  2. NEWS FLASH: Surprise Ruling by Delaware Judge Orders Both Sides To Use Predictive Coding (October 2012)

    Predictive Coding / Pre GenAI TARe-Discovery Team

  3. Jason Baron’s Keynote Speech — “Boldly Going Where Few Judges Have Gone Before: The Emerging Case Law on Software-Assisted Document Review and Our Next 5 Year Mission” (June 2012)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  4. Judge David Waxse on Cooperation and Lawyers Who Act Like Spoiled Children (March 2012)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  5. My CLE event this week with the e-Discovery Triumvirate: Judges Facciola, Grimm and Peck; and my upcoming battle at Legal Tech with Craig Ball (January 2012)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

2011

  1. Judge Peck Calls Upon Lawyers to Use Artificial Intelligence and Jason Baron Warns of a Dark Future of Information Burn-Out If We Don’t (October 2011)

    Artificial Intelligencee-Discovery Team

  2. Case Where IT Tech’s Fast-Talk Had Zero Persuasive Value with Judge (August 2011)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

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  3. Judge Scheindlin Withdraws Her NDLON Opinion (June 2011)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  4. News on Victor Stanley II – Judge Garbis Affirms Amount of Judge Grimm’s $1,049,850.04 Sanction (June 2011)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  5. Going “Gaga” Over Big Deals and Malpractice in e-Discovery (June 2011)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  6. 2nd Addendum to e-Disco is Hot: Clearwell Sells for $410 Million! (May 2011)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  7. Top Ten e-Discovery Issues by Judge Andrew Peck and David Lender (April 2011)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  8. Judge Refers Defendant’s e-Discovery Abuse to U.S. Attorney for Criminal Prosecution of the Company and Four of Its Top Officers (April 2011)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  9. Government Appeals and Seeks a Stay of Judge Scheindlin’s FOIA Order on Metadata in NDLON v. ICE (March 2011)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  10. New Opinion by Judge Scheindlin on FOIA, Metadata and Cooperation (February 2011)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  11. Delaware Court of Chancery Provides Good Advice on Preservation (January 2011)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

2010

  1. Magistrate Judge in NY Says Verbal Hold Notice May Be Ok and Questions the Value of Proportionality (November 2010)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  2. Welcome To Our Rockin’ Priv Party On Categorical Privilege Logs (November 2010)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  3. A State Court Judge’s View on e-Discovery (Part Two) (November 2010)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  4. A State Court Judge’s View on e-Discovery (Part One) (November 2010)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  5. “Victor Stanley 2” – Judge Grimm Imposes Prison Sanction for Spoliation by a Defendant Reminiscent of the Leader of “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” (September 2010)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  6. BREAKING NEWS: Judge Scheindlin Amends Pension Committee Again (May 2010)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  7. My Homage to Judge David J. Waxse and Kansas City (April 2010)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  8. What Can Happen When Lawyers Delegate Their e-Discovery Duties to a Client (April 2010)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  9. Judge Rosenthal v. Judge Scheindlin: A Bogus Battle (March 2010)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  10. Raising the Bar – Judge Scheindlin Defines Gross Negligence in Spoliation (January 2010)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

2009

  1. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear an Electronic Communications Privacy Case (December 2009)

    Privacye-Discovery Team

  2. Final Exams Take Priority Over a Blog This week (December 2009)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  3. Happy Thanksgiving! (November 2009)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  4. Jurors Rebel, Defy Judges, and Google Their Own Truth (November 2009)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  5. A Supreme Court Justice Writes the Preface to a Sedona Conference Journal on the Cooperation Proclamation (November 2009)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  6. Judges Craig Shaffer and Ron Hedges Give Good Advice to All Students of e-Discovery (October 2009)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  7. Court Catches On To Feigned Attorney Cooperation and Client Pays the Consequences (September 2009)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

  8. Special Thanks to all Workers in the Legal Profession: Happy Labor Day to All! (September 2009)

    Law, Policy and Professional Responsibilitye-Discovery Team

  9. Most Popular Post of All Time (Summer Rerun): District Court in LA Decides Computer RAM Memory Must Be Preserved and Produced (August 2009)

    e-Discovery and Digital Evidencee-Discovery Team

About this catalog

Confirmed duplicates and minor variants share one entry, with available publication editions kept together. Unresolved versions remain separate pending review. The Historical Archive is optional in the main list. Other restricted-only works are omitted. The approved historical articles are openly readable. Search also checks the full text of publicly accessible e-Discovery Team articles; other publications are searched by their catalog information. Books remain in Books & Recognition.

Source: e-Discovery Team and Hacker Way publication records, plus outside articles listed in Ralph’s existing bibliography. Dates known only to the year are displayed as years. The practical era boundary for generative AI is November 2022.