PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

The Sedona Conference is a nonprofit research and educational institute, dedicated to the advanced study of law and policy in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property, and complex litigation. The Sedona Guidelines on document management can be found here.

ARMA, the Association of Information Management Professionals has also developed guidelines for records management in the corporate environment.

For excellent resources on legal practice management, refer to the Law Technology Institute at the University Of Florida Frederic Levin College Of Law headed by LEDI Board member Andy Adkins

E-DISCOVERY STANDARDS AND RESOURCES

For an excellent discussion of the issue, see The Proposed Federal E-Discovery Rules by Anita Ramasastry.

The Sedona Conference has also issued several sets of proposed standards called the Sedona Principles. 

The New Rules of E-Discovery

The E-Discovery Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure-Boot Camp for Litigation Readiness
by Laurie Weiss

Hitting the High Points of the New e-Discovery Rules by Craig Ball

EDD Information Exchange

ELECTRONIC TRIAL PRACTICE

Craig Ball - Craig Ball is a Board Certified trial lawyer and computer expert He has dedicated his career to teaching the bench and bar about forensic technology and trial tactics. After decades trying lawsuits, Craig now limits his practice to serving as a court-appointed special master and consultant in computer forensics and electronic discovery, and to publishing and lecturing on computer forensics, emerging technologies, digital persuasion and electronic discovery. Craig’s award-winning e-discovery column, “Ball in Your Court,” appears in Law Technology News. Named as one of the Best Lawyers in America and a Texas Superlawyer, Craig is a recipient of the Presidents' Award, the State Bar of Texas’ most esteemed recognition of service to the profession and of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Law and Technology.

Information about court technology can be found at the University of Arizona Courtroom of the Future or the Courtroom 21 Project at the College of William and Mary Law School.

For general information about document imaging standards, see AIIM the Association for Information and Imaging Management.

E-FILING

For current resources on e-filing throughout the country, see the ELawyering Inititative of the Law Practice Management Section  of the ABA.

Two groups working with the development of court based e-filing systems are Legal XML and the U.S Federal Courts.