The abundance of electronic information now available makes it more important than ever that litigators understand how to prepare their clients for e-discovery without letting prohibitive costs influence their clients’ litigation decisions. Judges and lawyers in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals understand this predicament and have taken preventive action by drafting e-discovery principles and implementing them, on a test basis, in hundreds of pending cases in the 7th Circuit.
History of the Pilot Program
Chaired and encouraged by Chief Judge James F. Holderman and Magistrate Judge Nan R. Nolan of the Northern District of Illinois, the 7th Circuit E-Discovery Pilot Program Committee was formed in 2009. Its mission was to develop pretrial litigation principles governing electronic discovery to reduce its cost and burden.
