The IndyBar E-Discovery, Cybersecurity & Information Governance Section is very excited to share the link to watch our recent CLE< Machine Learning is Here to Stay, and You're Already Using It, presented by Ray Biedermanof Mattingly Burke Cohen & Biederman LLP/Proteus Discovery Group and John Yuzdepski of Ritech Solutions. 

A recent order entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California provides helpful guidance on drafting requests for production under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and additional considerations for developing discovery dispute strategies. In this case, the purchaser of a 2013 Ford F-350 truck brought several claims arising from an allegedly defective engine. The purchaser sought to compel production of information in connection with 12 requests for production.

While it’s our goal year-round to make you, IndyBar members, more profitable and productive in your practice, we’re taking extra care during the month of September to show you how much we appreciate you!

Recently, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois imposed significant sanctions, including a mandatory adverse inference instruction, against a plaintiff that deleted his Facebook account after receiving written discovery requests targeted at the information contained within the Facebook account. This case is a cautionary tale for any practitioner and stands for the proposition that the duty to preserve social media evidence can arise long before suit is filed, even where the evidence on the social media page does not directly relate to the subject matter of the case.

An IndyBarHQ utilization task force has been organized, featuring a diverse group of members, to direct our new HQ’s evolution with intention and creativity. The ideas already are simmering vigorously, but we need your help to bring them to a full boil.

What’s one of your biggest work challenges? I recently posed that question to my fellow board members of the Indianapolis chapter of Women in eDiscovery. The responses are crowdsourced insights into day-to-day e-discovery practice at law firms, service providers and corporations.

A prisoner litigation case in the Southern District of Indiana is a helpful reminder about the duty to preserve electronically stored evidence (ESI).

Service on the Indianapolis Bar Association Board of Directors is an invaluable opportunity to play a role in the future of the legal community.

The Indianapolis Bar Association has selected 18 emerging attorney leaders to participate in its Bar Leader Series. With the goal of preparing talented and diverse early-career lawyers to take their places as both leaders in the legal profession and leaders in addressing needs of the community, the Bar Leader Series is an intensive year-long leadership development program designed specifically for Indianapolis Bar Association member attorneys in their third to tenth year of practice.

A selection committee acting on behalf of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Foundation has announced the selection of Chief Judge Tanya Walton Pratt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana as a recipient of the IndyBar's prestigious Luminary Award of Excellence. Chief Judge Pratt will be honored at the 2021 IndyBar Bench Bar Conference in Louisville, Kentucky on June 19.