The 13th annual Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute keynote featured Paul Grewal, a former federal magistrate judge and former law firm partner who now manages Facebook’s global litigation organization. In a wide-ranging discussion lead by Robert Eisenberg, a founder of the institute, Grewal discussed e-discovery practice specialization, the impact of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) amendments, and social media discovery.
E-Discovery Specialization
Grewal told the 500-plus-person audience that electronic discovery “should be understood as a serious, specialized discipline” in its own right, much like patent or antitrust disciplines. In so doing, well-trained discovery professionals speaking to adversaries and to the courts can “up-level” the quality of meet and confers, which could serve both the parties and courts well in many ways. A skilled discovery specialist on the litigation team, for example, can liberate other trial counsel to focus on those things that they do best, such as case strategy. In Grewal’s view, discovery specialists, well employed, can even “free up budget for the case” by focusing on the specific discovery required for the matter.
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