E-Discovery basics: The Sedona Conference

This week on Discovering E Discovery, I'd like to talk about the Sedona Conference.

The Sedona Conference is a research and educational institute based in Sedona, Arizona. The Conference strives to improve law and policy in the areas of antitrust law, complex litigation and intellectual property rights.

The Sedona Conference's first Working Group is called 'Electronic Document Retention and Production', and it deals with the subject of e-discovery. Starting in 2002, a lot of very smart people have met together to talk about current issues in, and challenges to, the world of electronic discovery.

Working Group 1 released its first publication in 2003, and it was cited by Judge Scheindlin in the Zubulake cases.

The Sedona Conference's website can be found here. The documents published by Working Group 1 are found here. They are a very valuable resource for e-discovery professionals.

Everyone who works in electronic discovery should be familiar with the Sedona conference, and its Working Group 1!

(A short post this week, but Discovering E Discovery is in a brief summer hiatus.)