My Top Blogs from 2025

I posted 237 blogs this year to date. Many are on EDRM or JD Supra.

Some that may be worth reading are:

• An “ESI Protocol” is Not a Rule 26(f) “Discovery Plan”
• What is the Purpose of an ESI Protocol? Court Addresses Seven Key Issues
• Artificial Intelligence in Maryland Courts
• “Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back Into the Water,” A.I. Hallucinates Metadata
• Order Prohibiting Upload of Confidential Discovery Documents to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)
• No Duty to Respond to Preservation Letter
• Another Approach to Drafting and Discovery of Litigation Hold Notices
• “Meet and Confer” Was Transcribed
• The “Best Time” to File a Spoliation Motion
• When Must a Motion to Compel Be Filed? – Part 4
• No Privilege Log is Necessary in Limited Circumstances When Discovery Requests Are Overbroad
• Hit Reports – Part IV – Request for “Nonresponsiveness” Log Denied
• Age-old Habit of “Subject to” Objections Waives Them; So Does “To the Extent” Objection
• Guidelines for “Discovery on Discovery”
• Did the 2015 Deletion of “Not Reasonably Calculated” From Rule 26(b)(1) Change the Scope of Discovery?
• R.Civ.P. 26(g) Was Violated by Permitting Client Searches With Minimal Oversight by Counsel
• Document Correlation
• Production of Defendants’ Organizational Chart is Ordered
• Geofencing, Geotargeting, and Geo-blocking, in Civil Litigation, Information Governance, and Regulation
• Order for Phased Discovery
• Standard for Court-Ordered Forensic Examinations – When Does Misconduct “Cross the Rubicon”?
• Golden Oldie #5 – Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(g) and the “Discovery Budget”
• “Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in the record”

One area that may be of interest has been coverage of the discovery issues in Ms. Blake Lively’s lawsuit against the “Wayfarer Parties” and Mr. Justin Baldoni.

A few of those blogs are:

• How Much Attention Does a Big Case Deserve?
• Decision on 557 Requests for Admission in Blake Lively v. Wayfarer Parties/Justin Baldoni
• What Connects “Popcorned Planet” and Ms. Blake Lively?
• Another Discovery Decision in Blake Lively v. Wayfarer Parties/Justin Baldoni
• “Birth Video” Discovery Dispute in Lively v. Wayfarer Studios/Baldoni
• Listing a Document on a Privilege Log Concedes That it is Relevant for Discovery

My most important blogs were not focused on ESI.  Some of them are:

• Another Judicial Impeachment Effort?  What Would Justice Rehnquist Say?
• Protecting the Judiciary – Analysis of Judicial Impeachment
• Protecting the Judiciary – Again
• Protecting the Judiciary Against This Ill-Advised “Impeachathon”
• Protecting the Judiciary –  Article of Impeachment:  “It’s Déjà vu All Over Again”
• “Pizzas Sent to Judges’ Homes in Name of Judge’s Murdered Son”
• Commentary: “Ex-Judges See ‘Grave Threat in Trump Official’s ‘War’ Talk” And “Senate Committee to Investigate Impeachment of Judges”
• Families of Judges Come Under Attack
• “DOJ’s No. 2 Official Asks Lawyers to Join ‘War’ Against Judges”
• Lawsuit Against Federal Judges Dismissed – “[T]hese are not normal times.”
• In Memory of Kaylee Walstad
• Book Review: Elie Honig, “When You Come at the King”
• Congratulations to Phil Favro on the Opening Favro Law PLLC