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Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee

Mission

The Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee is dedicated to enhancing the substantive knowledge of its members about a wide range of Pretrial Practice & Discovery issues. It keeps members abreast of legislative proposals, rule changes, and recent court decisions. To take full advantage of these benefits, we invite you to become involved in our subcommittees.

The Committee operates through its subcommittees, each of which focuses on a particular substantive or procedural topic, or which keeps the membership informed about recent developments in the law. With the help of members like you, the subcommittees can provide our membership with more in-depth information on a more frequent basis, especially in fast-growing and cutting-edge areas such as electronic discovery. Being involved also gives you the opportunity to network with some of the country's best and brightest litigators concerning topics that affect your practice every day.

Getting involved is easy! We will contact you with information about current projects. We look forward to working with you!

We hope you will take a moment to explore the Committee's latest newsletter, featuring articles on motions to dismiss, electronic discovery and drafting interrogatories. Additional articles can be found in the newsletter archive.

 

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Announcements

New Practice Pointers Page Launches

We are excited to launch our new column, Practice Pointers, in which we will address those hard-to-answer procedural questions that frequently arise in day-to-day practice, but infrequently in published court opinions. If you have an issue you would like to see addressed, please let us know by contacting Betsy Collins or by joining our LinkedIn group and starting a discussion there.

Website Editorial Board

The Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee is seeking authors and editors to serve on its website editorial board, which will be responsible for developing and publishing articles and research tools on cutting-edge topics such as electronic discovery, as well as traditional Pretrial Practice & Discovery topics such as depositions, experts, privileges, and damages. This is a great opportunity to get involved, network with some of the country's best practitioners, and to build a valuable resource for active litigators. If you are interested in being an rditorial board member, have an article or an idea for an article that you would like to publish, or would like to be involved in any other aspect of developing PP&D’s updated website, please call or send an email to: Stacey F. Gottlieb.

Winter 2012 E-Newsletter

The latest edition of the committee e-newsletter is now available.

Message from the Chairs

Welcome to the Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee!

Spring came early in most parts of the country, bringing with it the promise of new life and new energy. The Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee is moving forward with several important initiatives, thanks to our energetic committee members! Our committee's focus is on improving pretrial and discovery practice for the benefit of clients and enhancement of the profession. Sharing ideas that enhance our practices benefits our members, as well as the legal community as a whole.

Our committee put on a fabulous program, "Predictive Coding: Will Human Review Go the Way of the Dinosaur?" at the 2012 Section Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Special kudos go to Programming Subcommittee Chair Jessica Hew, for her extremely hard work in pulling together the program and its fabulous speakers!

We will present the “Twiqbal Summit” Regional CLE Meeting on pleadings after Twombly and Iqbal in New York City on the afternoon of Thursday, May 17. The event will be held at the offices of Paul Hastings (75 E 55th Street) starting at 3:00 p.m. and will include two one-hour CLE programs, time for networking, and a reception at 6:00 p.m. Watch our committee’s listserv and the PP&D website for more details.

The following day, Friday, May 18, our E-Discovery Subcommittee will participate in the ABA’s Sixth Annual National Institute on E-Discovery at the University Club of New York (1 W. 54th Street).

We also have started new LinkedIn group and a Twitter feed. If you haven't joined the LinkedIn group yet we invite you to do so and participate in our group discussions, and also to follow us and re-tweet our posts! These are great places to share ideas, locate expert witnesses, find a conference room in another city, etc. And you can reach out to several colleagues at once to seek advice concerning day-to-day practice issues.

Our subcommittees are planning activities now, so please email us if you would like to get involved in any or all of our Content, Electronic Discovery, Programming, Emerging Issues, and Distance Learning/Podcasts, Iqbal Taskforce, or Membership Subcommittees.

Send us your ideas, articles, and case updates. We are always looking for great content for our webpage.

Betsy Collins

Ian H. Fisher
Marvin Aspen
Joan Archer

Cochairs, Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee

 

 

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