What have Working Groups achieved so far in contributing to the advancement of law and policy?
Working Group 1 was formed in Spring of 2002 and issued a public comment version of The Sedona Principles addressing electronic document production in March of 2003 – a month later, the Principles were cited by the Federal Judicial Center’s Civil Rules Advisory Committee Discovery Subcommittee as one of the reasons to focus on possible amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in this area. A month later it was cited by the Southern District of New York in the first of many opinions in the now seminal Zubulake case. Most recently, it was cited by the District of Kansas as “persuasive authority” where no guidance existed in either the rules or the case law to help resolve the dispute before the court on the discovery of various data in connection with electronic spreadsheets. Williams v. Sprint/United Management Co., 2005 WL 2401626 (D. Kan. Sept. 29, 2005). Since then, WG1 has published the Second Edition of The Sedona Principles (June, 2007), and a number of Commentaries of i
