In resolving ongoing discovery conflicts between quarreling parties, a court recently provided helpful guidance on the use of technology-assisted review as part of e-discovery. Of particular note, the court endorsed the position taken by many courts and commentators that responding parties are best positioned to determine the processes and technology they use to search and produce their own electronically stored information.

'Livingston v. City of Chicago'

In Livingston v. City of Chicago, 2020 WL 5253848 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 3, 2020), after a series of discovery disagreements, plaintiffs in the employment discrimination dispute sought to compel defendant city of Chicago to use a specific methodology for search, review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI).