What? The Rules Committee Hearings Don’t Have A Hashtag?

On a snowy Sixth Avenue this week, thousands of people packed the New York Hilton Midtown for the sensory overload that is LegalTech New York (#LTNY), the annual E-Discovery, privacy, and information governance bash.

And today, just hours after the massive conference closed, the E-Discovery conversation moves to Dallas for the third (and last) Advisory Committee for the Civil Rules hearing, at which the discussion will focus on whether to reinforce the proportionality provisions adopted eight years ago, and whether and how to clarify preservation obligations and the sanctions that attach to imperfect preservation.

But more on what happens in Dallas next week.

As a conference, LegalTech focused on many different aspects of technology's intersection with the practice of law, but overarching it all was the specter of digital information—particularly, the safe management of client information (whether it be at the client, at the law firm, or in the "cloud") and the