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Areas of Focus

Litigation
Regulatory
Antitrust
Mergers and acquisitions
White collar
Corporate compliance

Representative Industries

Financial services
Technology
Life sciences
Energy
Shipping and logistics
Chemicals and healthcare
Heavy industry
Labor and employment
Media and information
Pharmaceutical

Fast Facts

  • National discovery counsel to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies
  • Quality control protocol and best practices used by some of the largest companies in the United States
  • Team of 20 full-time partners, of counsel, and associates with in-depth knowledge and skill; contingent workforce of 150 legal professionals
  • National reputation as thought leaders in electronic discovery
  • eData management team members are participants in The Sedona Conference and other eDiscovery think tanks
  • Founders of our own in-house corporate eDiscovery think tank, the Discovery Manager’s Roundtable

Related Publications

05/20/13 Selecting Service Providers and Building a True Partnership, Legal Intelligencer
05/09/13 Court Permits Combination of Predictive Coding and Keyword Search
Focusing on precision rather than recall, district court finds that process complies with discovery obligations.
04/30/13 E-Discovery and ESI for Employment Lawyers
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04/22/13 The 7 Firms GCs are Telling their Friends to Hire, Law360
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04/22/13 GCs Say Strong Brand Key to Landing New Clients, Law360
Morgan Lewis strong brand is recognized in BTI Consulting Group's 2013 Brand Elite report.
04/22/13 The 6 Firms Shaking Up the Legal Market, Law360
Morgan Lewis is profiled in BTI Consulting Group's Brand Elite: Client Perceptions of the Best-Branded Law Firms report.
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08/28/12 Court Orders Cost-Shifting for Pre-Class Certification Discovery

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
Jennifer Williams

Eastern District of Pennsylvania decision offers discovery cost relief for litigants faced with asymmetrical pre-class certification discovery.

07/25/12 Search and Collection of Data Efforts Critiqued in FOIA Case

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
Scott Milner, Denise Backhouse, Stephanie Blair

Absent showing of sound methodology, Judge Scheindlin finds identification, self-collection, and keywords to be insufficient.

07/25/12 Failure to Issue Written Legal Hold Is Not Gross Negligence Per Se

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
Scott Milner, Denise Backhouse, Stephanie Blair

Rejecting Judge Scheindlin's Pension Committee standard, the Second Circuit adopts a case-by-case approach to determining the degree of negligence and sanctions.

07/11/12 Florida Courts Adopt Rules Specifically Addressing Electronic Discovery

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
Tara Lawler, Scott Milner, Stephanie Blair

While some of the rules overlap with existing federal provisions, there are some differences—key among them Florida's absence of a mandatory "meet and confer" rule.

06/27/12 Electronic Discovery Top 10 and Ethical Considerations, presented for a CLE course

Presentation | Speech
Scott Milner

06/13/12 Pennsylvania Proclaims eDiscovery Independence from Federal Model

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
Tara Lawler, Scott Milner, Jacquelyn Caridad

State Supreme Court adopts new eDiscovery rules similar to federal rules, but specifically rejects federal jurisprudence.

05/15/12 The Future of eDiscovery: Predictive Coding, presented for Morgan Lewis's Technology May-rathon

Presentation | Webinar
Scott Milner, Stephanie Blair

03/30/12 New York State Court Applies Zubulake Preservation Standard

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
Jennifer Williams, Denise Backhouse

Appellate court finds that parties reasonably anticipating litigation, even in the face of settlement discussions, must preserve information.

03/22/12 Loser Pays Most Electronic Discovery Costs? Not So Fast

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
Jennifer Williams, Denise Backhouse, Tara Lawler, Scott Milner, Graham Rollins, Jacquelyn Caridad, Stephanie Blair, Lorraine Casto

A recent opinion vacating most of the electronic discovery costs affirmed in Race Tires II provides clarity in the Third Circuit as to the limited scope of electronic discovery costs recoverable by a prevailing civil party.

03/06/12 The Future of eDiscovery: Predictive Coding, presented at The Legal Intelligencer’s In-House Counsel Forum

Presentation | Speech
Scott Milner, Stephanie Blair

02/22/12 District of Delaware Adopts Default Standards for E-Discovery

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
L. Keven Hayworth, Tara Lawler, Scott Milner, Jennifer Williams, Lorraine Casto, Graham Rollins, Jacquelyn Caridad, Denise Backhouse, Stephanie Blair

The trend continues toward increased judicial involvement in e-discovery to lower litigation costs and promote cooperation among litigants.

02/21/12 Preservation & Proportionality in eDiscovery, presented to the New Jersey chapter of Women in eDiscovery

Presentation | Speech
Denise Backhouse

02/08/12 Blogging, Friending & Tweeting: What Attorneys Should & Should Not Do, presented at The New York City Bar Association

Presentation | Speech
Denise Backhouse

02/01/12 Overhaul of European Data Protection Law Announced

LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Celia Kendrick, François Vergne, Matthew Howse, Walter Ahrens

European Commission proposal for a new General Data Protection Regulation aims to strengthen and harmonise data protection law across Europe.

01/31/12 The Ethical and Technological Issues Surrounding E-Discovery, presented for LegalTech

Presentation | Scott Milner

12/08/11 Reducing Cost from Electronic Discovery, presented for Corporate Counsel magazine's 3rd Annual Controlling Legal Costs Seminar

Presentation | Speech
Scott Milner

Reducing Cost from Electronic Discovery, presented for Corporate Counsel magazine's 3rd Annual Controlling Legal Costs Seminar. more

12/06/11 Ethics and eDiscovery—Practical Implications for Life Sciences Corporations, presented for a Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (DELVACCA) Life Sciences Seminar

Presentation | Speech
Scott Milner

Ethics and eDiscovery-Practical Implications for Life Sciences Corporations, presented for a Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (DELVACCA) Life Sciences Seminar. more

11/28/11 Be Careful What You Ask for: Loser Pays Prevailing Party Electronic Discovery Costs (Again)

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
eData Practice

Following on the heels of Race Tires II ,[1] which awarded electronic discovery costs in favor of the prevailing party, several recent awards suggest that when deciding whether to pursue lit... more

10/25/11 Using Lean Six Sigma and Predictive Coding to Confront Volume Problem, Legal Intelligencer

Outside Publication | Article
Tara Lawler, Stephanie Blair

Traditional document review in the age of e-discovery is reaching the point of infeasibility. Setting hordes of attorneys in front of computer screens to review and code millions (sometimes billions) of records is not only prohib... more

09/28/11 Federal Circuit Unveils Model Order for E-Discovery in Patent Cases

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
L. Keven Hayworth, Tara Lawler, Scott Milner, Jennifer Williams, Lorraine Casto, Graham Rollins, Jacquelyn Caridad, Denise Backhouse, Stephanie Blair

During his September 27 remarks at the Eastern District of Texas Judicial Conference, Chief Judge Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit unveiled a new Model Order for the governance of e-discover... more

09/15/11 Cross-Border Discovery and Investigations—Developing a Strategic Response Plan, presented for Virtual LegalTech

Presentation | Speech
Denise Backhouse

09/08/11 European Data Protection Laws: Critical Considerations for International Privacy and E-Discovery, presented for a Guidance Software webinar

Presentation | Webinar
Denise Backhouse

08/31/11 Panelist, eDiscovery in Employment Litigation, Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar

Presentation | Speech
Scott Milner

06/29/11 Social Media in eDiscovery

Presentation | Webinar
Scott Milner, Denise Backhouse, Stephanie Blair

06/20/11 Electronic Discovery Costs: Loser Pays (for what?)

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
eData Practice

To what extent might it be possible to recoup costs associated with electronic discovery as part of a trial judgment? Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d) gives the prevailing party the right to recover costs where authorized ... more

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