Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
Aug. 18, 2012
eDiscover(ing) the practice of law
The D.C. Bar is leading the charge as to whether eDiscovery vendors are practicing law.
After a month off from writing this column to teach students in a Loyola Law School Los Angeles summer abroad program on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus about international dispute settlement by diplomatic means, I returned to discover that there is a threshold issue brewing in the eDiscovery field. That question is whether non-lawyer discovery service providers are, in fact, engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
Problem. It seems that lawyers in ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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