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documents.</P><br><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:constructionlaw-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>mromm@rommlaw.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 17, 2012 1:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> RPPTL constructionlaw<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] [RPPTL-construction law] E - D I S C OV E R Y starts September 1....<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Fellow Members: I recently read in an ACEDS article about the following: Did you know that there is a law firm in California that is now being sued for malpractice due to an E-Discovery screw up? <span style='background:white'>The case involves allegations that J-M Manufacturing Co., of Los Angeles, through its former lawyers at McDermott Will & Emery and e-discovery service providers, Navigant and Stratify, repeatedly disclosed nearly 4,000 privileged documents to adversaries and the US government in a federal False Claims Act lawsuit. </span>Who thinks that under 502 these inadvertant disclosures will be recovered by the Clawback Rule? <span style='background:white'> <b><u>Judge Wu issued an opinion which is attached.</u></b> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:15.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt'><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>This case led me to thinking about Florida's new E-Discovery Rules:</span></u></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:15.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Florida's new E-Discovery Rules take effect on September 1, 2012. I know of several larger law firms that have already assembled their E-Discovery Committees, developed internal practices and procedures, created E-Discovery Compliance Checklists, E-discovery litigation forms for use in litigation, fine tuned their litigation hold letters; and they have already retained or interviewed third party vendors. In the case of the smaller firms, such as my solo law practice, I have also convened an E-Discovery Committee, but mine is a committee of 1 (me). <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:15.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I am sure there are a number of CLC Members who have a similarly sized law firm. I met with myself and voted unanimously to create internal practices and procedures to comply with the new E-Discovery Rules, create compliance checklists and E-Discovery litigation forms, etc. However, I would welcome and <span style='background:white'>appreciate the benefit of any firm that has prepared any documentation related to E-Discovery that they might be willing to share with our committee. For example: </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>1. Litigation hold letter forms (to our own clients and a different form to the opposing party).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>2. E-Discovery compliance Checklist<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>3. E-Discovery Compliance Forms such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> A. a new form for a Request for Production of Documents that specifically addresses the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(a) emails<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(b) duplication<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(c) de-duplication<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(d) Twitter<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(e) Facebook<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(f) PDA's , I-Phones, I-Pads, Cell-Phones, Blackberry's; PDA's (federal and state courts have already ruled these are all fair game);<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(g) production format? with or without source and header information? metadata, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(h) Text Messages<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>(i) Etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Because emails and text messages are so easy to use and expedite communications, people tend to be less formal about what they say in an email or a text. If you think discovery concerning this type of communication is not crucial, just ask any one of the 85,000 people employed worldwide at the prestigious accounting firm of Arthur Andersen! OOOps. You can't ask them! They all lost their jobs! As discussed in a recent Florida Bar Journal article: "The classic example is Arthur Andersen's shredding of Enron-related documents. Several e-mails by Andersen's employees candidly remarked and joked about the shredding of thousands of crucial auditing materials. The result: Those e-mails surfaced, and today Andersen no longer exists".<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes!. Michael Romm<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Michael Romm</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Michael R. 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