In nearly every facet of litigation, the issue of electronic
discovery and how to manage its production and review is becoming
an important issue. This is no different in family law cases.
Increasingly, individuals, businesses, and financial institutions
are producing discovery via PDFs, hyperlinks to shared databases,
and hard drives or cloud access. The collection of data and record
retention policy gives us access to millions of megabytes of data
to download, sift through, and produce. The size of discovery
productions in family law cases can at times rival or exceed that
of more "traditional" litigation.
The pressure to handle these productions in a secure and ethical
way has grown so great that my firm took the affirmative step some
time ago to select my partner, Joshua Hummel, to chair our Electronic
Discovery Practice Group. Josh's group is tasked with planning
and managing Fox Rothschild's e-discovery compliance. Thanks to
Josh and his staff, our firm is
