Mo' Shira

Hot Talk: New York District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's Pension Committee ruling remains Topic A in e-discovery circles, with her assertion that screw-ups on litigation holds can often constitute "gross negligence" and subject parties to severe discovery sanctions.

Many folks are analyzing the case in the context of another recent decision by Texas judge Lee Rosenthal, Rimkus Consulting v. Cammarata. 

There has been a lively debate on these two cases here in our EDD Update blog, including this post from Ralph Losey,  and this post from John Jablonski. In our upcoming May issue of Law Technology News, we'll have two more articles on the topic, including Craig Ball's analysis in his Ball in Your Court column.

Here's a recent article from the New York Law Journal, by partners H. Christopher Boehning, Daniel Toal, and  associate Rebecca Kinburn, of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

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