Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
May 21, 2016
Law schools need to ramp up e-discovery education
Most law schools fail to provide the critical technical and legal e-discovery instruction necessary to prepare their students for entry into the real world of 21st century litigation.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
Andrew J. Peck, a U.S. magistrate judge in Southern District of New York, cautions that today's litigators need to "know how to deal with email and other forms of ESI [electronically stored information]." Moreover, Marla Bergman, vice president at Goldman Sachs, warns that e-discovery is a "core competency of the practice of law" and that "all lawyers, particularly litigators, need to understand" its fundamentals.
In the past, I have noted the failure of most law schools to provide ...
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