Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Robert Owen, a partner with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. He is head of the New York location's litigation group, as well as co-head of the firm's E-Discovery and Information Management practice group. Owen is part of the core team that conceived of and has administered Fulbright's Annual Litigation Trends Survey since its inception in 2004. We discussed his New York Law Journal article, Seeking Ways to Set Limits on E-Discovery, in which he cites the factors that are leading numerous groups to initiate re-examinations of U.S. e-discovery rules, summarizes their progress and makes predictions for 2010. He noted that "we are alone among the nations of the world in having adopted a full pre-trial disclosure philosophy back in 1938" and "what we are seeing now is a confluence of efforts" by diverse groups to make litigation more manageable.