Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series.

Leonard Deutchman Leonard Deutchman

In my January 2018 piece, “An E-Discovery Opinion That’s Boring: Have We Come That Far?I discussed how the opinion in Winfield v. New York, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 194413 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 27, 2017) was, paradoxically, exciting because it was boring. Because e-discovery opinions involved technical matters that were outside of the understanding of the typical judge or attorney, I observed, such opinions tended to be exciting regardless of the legal issue that underlay them.