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Civil Litigation,
Law Practice

Apr. 7, 2012

eDiscovery: not so fast with the Da Silva Moore Lawyer Relief Act of 2012

Predictive coding will continue to be a hot topic, and litigants will use it to the extent that it makes fiscal sense.

A. Marco Turk

Emeritus Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills

Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com

A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.

No sooner than publication of my last column (March 16) regarding the Da Silva Moore case, and my conclusion that U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Jay Peck's ruling regarding the advantages of predictive coding had established the "Lawyer Relief Act of 2012," word came that the federal district judge supervising that case, Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr., had granted plaintiffs' request for an opportunity to object to Peck's decision by March 19. This development is interesting in several...

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