An Interview with Judge Paul Grimm, Chief United States Magistrate Judge, 2 of 3

http://ow.ly/72MVY

Part 2 of the 3 part series of the interview with U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm on the discovery brain blog website.

In this article eDiscovery expert and Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm is asked the following questions:

• Do you think the increasingly high costs of eDiscovery is preventing certain parties and law firms from bringing certain cases to court because of a lack of financial resources to bear the costs of eDiscovery?
• How do you prevent money from being the deciding factor of who litigates in court?
• Why do you think there’s an increase in eDiscovery sanctions? Is it because there’s more cases involving eDiscovery, or is it a lack of attention to the rules and regulations?

Read the article for the full and informative response that Judge Grimm provided.  Of interesting note, Judge Grimm stated, "...the amount of money spent on ESI experts in ten years have gone from costing the U.S. $20M to an estimated $10B."

In addition, Judge Grimm also stated, "It is not sufficient for a lawyer to not know about the technology that they use in eDiscovery. There are also many people that say lawyers have to know the technology intimately like the distinction between server-based systems and cloud-based systems. You have to know how social media operates, the technical issues associated with it and since the answer to the issues (procedurally and substantively) depend on it, lawyers can’t avoid it."