Judge Waxse E-Discovery Roundup

by Jeremy Clare

After blogging about In the Matter of Applications for Search Warrants for Information Associated with Target Email Address, we have come across several noteworthy materials related to e-discovery written by the Honorable David J. Waxse, the author of the Order. Judge Waxse is a Magistrate Judge with the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas and a well-known scholar on e-discovery. He is an Observer to The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electric Document Retention and Production and Working Group 6 on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure.

Magistrate Judge Waxse has given many presentations on e-discovery, including presentations at the 6th Annual Sedona Conference Institute Program on Staying Ahead of the eDiscovery Curve in 2012, Exterro’s 2012 E-Discovery Case Law Forecast: Hindsight is 20/20, Georgetown Law’s Advanced eDiscovery Institute in 2011, and Kroll Ontrack’s Turning the Tide – The Need for E-Discovery Education in 2011. He is also the author of several articles related to e-discovery, including “Do I Really Have To Do That?” Rule 26(a)(1) Disclosures and Electronic Information,10 RICH. J.L. & TECH. 50 (2004), at http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v10i5/article50.pdf.

Magistrate Judge Waxse earned his B.A. degree from the University of Kansas and his J.D. degree from Columbia University. He was a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon prior to his appointment to the District Court in 1999. On top of giving presentations on e-discovery, Judge Waxse has also been a lecturer at the University of Kansas.