An Interview with Judge Paul Grimm, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge, 1 of 3

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An article by Joedie on the discoverybrain.com blog.

This article is the first part of an announced 3 part series regarding an interview with eDiscovery expert Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm.

The article poses the question to Judge Grimm, "How did your expertise and awareness about eDiscovery evolve over time? How did you become a thought leader in eDiscovery?"  The remainder of the blog post is Judge Grimm's response to this question.

In addition the background that Judge Grimm discusses regarding his involvement in eDiscovery related issues, he states, "In no system does it make sense that you spend $5M to resolve a case that’s worth $1M. With the volume of digital evidence out there and the number of people who have the same evidence in different locations, parties spend enormous amounts of money trying to figure out what you have before they can then even talk about settlement or trial. So the real challenge for the profession and for the courts is to make it so that we don’t become so expensive that people can’t afford to come here.

Finally, in 2009, the Chief Justice of the United States appointed me to the advisory committee for the rules of civil procedure. Since then, I have been privileged to actually serve on the rules committee and be apart of the deliberative process involving lawyers and judges ad members of public trying to identify how good our current rules operate and if they need revisions."