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color:#1F497D">This topic is going to be a plenary session this year at the CLI. We are having the chair of the rules committee, Kevin Johnson, moderate a panel. Confirmed
on the panel so far is Hon. Richard Nielsen. He also worked extensively on the new rules. Invitations are out to Magistrate David Baker and Hon. Alice Blackwell (business court Orange County).
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<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>lauriesams@comcast.net<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 17, 2012 2:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RPPTL constructionlaw<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] [RPPTL-construction law] E - D I S C OVE R Y starts September 1....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:dangreenelaw@yahoo.com" title="dangreenelaw@yahoo.com">Daniel Greene</a> ;
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RPPTL constructionlaw</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Friday, August 17, 2012 1:50 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] [RPPTL-construction law] E - D I S C OVE R Y starts September
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">I (along with Dan DeSouza of our firm) have lectured several times on the new Florida rules and eDiscovery matters.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Happy to put on something for this group if there is interest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">It is a topic that every attorney doing any kind of civil litigation needs to know something about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>Daniel Greene<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 17, 2012 1:38 PM<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Michael suggested I pass this on to everyone. It was what he was looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I told Michael to check the Ontario Bar Association web-site. Their E-discovery forms and information are very useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Best regards,<br>
Daniel Greene<br>
Daniel M. Greene, P.A.<br>
Florida Board Certified in Construction Law<br>
Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil and Appellate Mediator<br>
P.O. Box 3092<br>
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To ensure compliance with Treasury Regulations (31 CFR Part 10, Sec. 10.35), we inform you that any tax advice contained in this correspondence was not intended or written by us to be used, and cannot be used by you or anyone else, for the purpose of avoiding
penalties imposed by the Internal Revenue Code. <br>
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NOTE: This e-mail is from Daniel M. Greene, P.A., and is intended for the recipient(s)only. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete the e-mail and do not copy or disclose it. If you are not an existing client, do not
construe anything in this e-mail to make you a client unless it contains a specific statement to that effect and do not disclose anything to Daniel M. Greene, P.A. that you expect to be confidential. If you properly received this e-mail as a client, co-counsel
or retained expert, you should maintain its contents in confidence to preserve the attorney-client or work product privilege.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> "<a href="mailto:mromm@rommlaw.com">mromm@rommlaw.com</a>"
<<a href="mailto:mromm@rommlaw.com">mromm@rommlaw.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> RPPTL constructionlaw <<a href="mailto:constructionlaw@lists.flabarrpptl.org">constructionlaw@lists.flabarrpptl.org</a>>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 17, 2012 1:19 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RPPTL-constructionlaw] [RPPTL-construction law] E - D I S C O V E R Y starts September 1....</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><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).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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>
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color:black">2. E-Discovery compliance Checklist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">3. E-Discovery Compliance Forms such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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>
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color:black">(a) emails<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">(b) duplication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">(c) de-duplication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">(d) Twitter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">(e) Facebook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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>
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color:black">(h) Text Messages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black">(i) Etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><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>
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color:black"> Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes!. Michael Romm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Michael R. Romm, P.A.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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