PHASE ONE - IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION
(OCTOBER 1, 2009 - MAY 1, 2010)
At the September 16, 2009 meeting of the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Committee, at which the Principles were voted on and approved for implementation during Phase One of the Pilot Program, the Survey sub-committee was created and Joanne McMahon, Governmental Compliance Leader at General Electric, and Natalie J. Spears of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP agreed to be the sub-committee’s co-chairs.
The IAALS, through its Executive Director Rebecca L. Kourlis, agreed to assist in the evaluation of the implementation of the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program by judges who volunteer to implement the Principles in select cases filed in the trial courts of the Seventh Circuit by entering the [Proposed] Standing Order incorporating the Principles. The selected cases will be evaluated using objective and subjective measuring tools. The resulting data will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and Judicial Conference of the Seventh Circuit, which will be held in Chicago on May 2 - 4, 2010. The data will also be available at the Civil Rules Advisory Committee Conference, which will be held at Duke University on May 10 - 11, 2010.
Following that, the Pilot Program will move on to Phase Two, which is planned to be
conducted from June 2010 to May 2011.
Now how many years will it take our Law Schools to catch up?
Reposted from: http://paralegalprofs.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-awakens-to-e-discovery.html