Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
California Supreme Court
Mar. 4, 2017
E-gad! Is e-discovery a liability trap for lawyers?
How is an attorney who is very proficient at most things, but thinks a pixel is a character from Peter Pan, supposed to "guide" an ESI expert or "conduct appropriate tests," and do so within the tight deadlines for discovery responses "prior to releasing ESI"? =
Louie H. Castoria
Partner
Kaufman, Dolowich & Voluck LLP
425 California St 21st Fl
San Francisco , CA 94104
Phone: (415) 926-7601
Fax: (415) 926-7601
Email: lcastoria@kdvlaw.com
UC Berkeley Boalt Hall
Louie is a mediator with CourtCall Online Dispute Resolution, a member of the Mediation Society, a mandatory settlement officer with the San Francisco County Superior Court, and an adjunct professor of law at Golden Gate University. He won his first U.S. Supreme Court on July 1, 2021.
Electronic communications have become the norm in personal and business communications, and play a central role in many lawsuits.
Emails may have swung the result of the last presidential election, and tweets may swing the next one. Much more frequently, electronic evidence swings the outcomes of litigated disputes, whether it's video captured by a police cruiser, deletions of documents that should have been preserved, or the "smoking gun" email. Nearly every case has become an e-dis...
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