Discovery Proportionality Benefit-Burden Model Conference Materials
Opening Session – Overview of Proportionality Model—A New Framework
- Benefits and Cost Proportionality Model: A New Framework, Calculator Appendices E and F (Unit Cost Chart) (Cost Projection Unit Cost) (Cost Projection Data Source), James F. Humphreys Complex Litigation Center (2021)
Panel 1: Deep Dive into New Framework: Prioritizing Custodians Possessing Relevant Information
- Benefits and Cost Proportionality Model: A New Framework, Section 01 – Custodians
- In re 3M Combat Arms Earplug Prod. Liab. Litig., No. 3:19-MD-2885, 2020 WL 3100016 (N.D. Fla. June 11, 2020)
Panel 2: Deep Dive into New Framework: Ranking Data Sources by Degree of Burden in Accessing Information from Them
- Benefits and Cost Proportionality Model: A New Framework, Section 02 - Defining Data Source Burden and Effort
- Garcia Ramirez v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enf't, 331 F.R.D. 194 (D.D.C. 2019)
- U.S. Equal Emp. Opportunity Comm'n v. George Washington Univ., No. 17-CV-1978 (CKK/GMH), 2020 WL 3489478 (D.D.C. June 26, 2020)
Panel 3: Deep Dive into New Framework: Projecting Discovery Cost for Each Identified Custodian by Data Source
- Benefits and Cost Proportionality Model: A New Framework, Section 03 - Discovery Cost Projections
- Nicholas M. Pace &Laura Zakaras, RAND Institute for Civil Justice, Where the Money Goes: Understanding Litigant Expenditures for Producing Electronic Discovery (2012)
- Rob Robinson, The Cost of Doing Business? Winter 2020 eDiscovery Pricing Survey Results, JD Supra (Dec. 2, 2019)
Panel 4: Applying the New Framework to an Individual Case
- Benefits and Cost Proportionality Model: A New Framework, Section 04 - Heat Map, Database Table, and Application of New Framework
- Annotated Bolch Judicial Institute Proportionality Best Practices – Guidelines and Best Practices for Implementing the 2015 Discovery Amendments to Achieve Proportionality, Bolch Judicial Institute, Duke Law School (2d ed. 2018)
Panel 5: Foundational Issue for New Framework: Why is 75%-85% Recall Used as the Standard?
- Herbert L. Roitblat, FOMO and eDiscovery (2019)
- Herbert L. Roitblat, Is There Something I'm Missing? Topic Modeling in eDiscovery (2020)
Panel 6: Applying the New Framework: Recent Caselaw Decisions and How the New Framework Model Might Have Affected Their Analysis
- Lawson v. Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., No. 18-1100-EFM-ADM, 2020 WL 6343292 (D. Kan. Oct. 29, 2020), aff'd, No. 18-1100-EFM, 2020 WL 6939752 (D. Kan. Nov. 24, 2020)
- Thomas v. City of New York, 336 F.R.D. 1 (E.D.N.Y. 2020)
- Sky Med. Supply Inc. v. SCS Support Claim Servs., Inc., No. CV126383JFBAKT, 2016 WL 4703656 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 7, 2016)
Panel 7: Counsel Views on New Framework
- Benefits and Cost Proportionality Model: A New Framework, Calculator Appendices E and F (Unit Cost Chart) (Cost Projection Unit Cost) (Cost Projection Data Source), James F. Humphreys Complex Litigation Center (2021)