Legal Opinion
In re Document Technologies Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 6, 2017No. 17-cv-2405; 17-cv-3433; 17-cv-3917PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.
The painstaking process of gathering and reviewing documents in connection with litigation discovery used to be a task relegated to (and dreaded by) young associates and paralegals at our. nation’s law firms. With the advent of electronic discovery, however, firms have shifted this task to third-party providers, who in turn have developed clever strategies for cultivating customers, which they guard jealously. Business apparently is booming—and so too are providers’ efforts to protect what they believe is their proprietary information regarding customer…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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