The process of e-discovery changes by the day and litigators must stay up to date. Guest Nicole Gill is the author of the book Best Practices for E-Discovery: A Practical Handbook.
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Nicole Marie Gill is the Chair and Managing Member of CODISCOVR, an ancillary business unit of Cozen...
Dave Scriven-Young is an environmental and commercial litigator in the Chicago office of O’Hagan Meyer, which handles...
| Published: | June 10, 2025 |
| Podcast: | Litigation Radio |
| Category: | e-Discovery , Litigation |
E-discovery is one of the hottest areas of litigation today. AI chats, Slack and social media, and confidentiality concerns are big news. As the field advances, it’s becoming increasingly important that legal professionals understand not just how to manage their own team’s data, but also what to ask for in discovery.
Guest Nicole Gill, author of Best Practices for E-Discovery: A Practical Handbook (American Bar Association), explains how new sources of digital data emerge almost daily and how rules of collecting and preserving data trails, as well as data generated by AI chatbots, are constantly evolving. You need to stay up to date or you’ll be left behind.
Knowing how to broadly expand your discovery requests can be crucial. It’s every attorney’s duty to understand the digital environments where important information, records, and communications live (and sometimes hide). Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Slack are changing the way your own clients, and any subject of discovery requests, communicate. What must be preserved and what can be reviewed? And how are countries outside the United States (including China and the EU) managing data and privacy?
Plus, a quick tip from guest Lindsay Polega as she explores the value of taking on pro bono work. It can be hard to take a full-time job fighting for justice. Those jobs don’t pay well, and many attorneys are wrestling with overwhelming student loans. But you can still do good by taking on some pro bono work, helping others while getting back to the ideals that got you into the field of law.
Resources:
American Bar Association Litigation Section
Special thanks to our sponsor ABA Section of Litigation.
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