I’ve been buried in big data for the last week, so look forward to my annual pilgrimage to our nation’s capital for the Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced E-Discovery Institute, starting Thursday.  Some years the GULC AEDI is good, and some years it’s great; but, every year it’s a boisterous class reunion for the Sedona Bubble Boys and Girls for whom the Institute has become an unmissable event.

Though I mourn the Institute’s waning efforts to teach the “e” in e-discovery, the 2013 Institute nonetheless retains its two finest features: the opening case update and the closing judicial round table.  No other conference brings together a bigger, brighter constellation of e-discovery “rock star” judges than Georgetown.

This year, I’m gratified to be a part of a new track dedicated to teaching cooperation in practice, offered by the GULC in conjunction with The Sedona Conference®.  It’s a taste of the two-day Sedona Conference Cooperation Training program in which I served on the faculty in Phoenix last February. Continue reading →