Philip Favro

The United States Judicial Conference is piloting a new discovery program in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago) and the District of Arizona that could force radical change on litigation procedures as well as discovery culture. Referred to as the Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot (MIDP), the program is

There has been a substantial push over the past several years for organizations to adopt an information governance (IG) program. Many legitimate reasons justify its implementation. For serial litigants or companies that are in highly regulated industries, IG measures such as

Discovery of social networking content has traditionally focused on social media platforms. This means requesting parties have sought to obtain and responding parties have attempted to preserve and produce relevant posts and messages from

An increasingly prevalent trend throughout corporate America is employee use of personal cloud applications in the workplace. This is not surprising since personal cloud applications like Dropbox and Google Drive have tremendous functionality. They simplify data sharing and