April 23 - 30, 2001: The first online CLE course on Digital Discovery will be offered to practitioners in all states that accept online CLE classes for credit.  

Goals: To educate practitioners about the complex issues surrounding digital discovery.  To create a new model for the way the Internet can be used for educational enterprises.  To reinvigorate CLE learning using this new medium of communication.

Spring '01 - '02: Fred Friendly Judicial Seminar programs continue at state and federal judicial conferences in conjunction with the Practicing Law Institute (click here to access PLI's website).

ARCHIVE OF PAST PROJECTS

Summer 2000: Assembling and Building

Reviewing findings from Digital Discovery planning meeting. Planning of Judicial conferences for Fall 2000 and educational tools necessary to implement them.

The Method: Students, working with Prof. Charles Nesson, the Berkman Center, and other interested groups and individuals, will compile findings from Digital Discovery planning meeting. Based on those and other relevant research, they will construct a web-library to create a central, widely-accessible resource for Digital Discovery; develop other educational tools for exploring Digital Discovery; plan the content for the judicial conferences.

The Goal: To centralize and sort the proliferating information regarding digital discovery. To prepare for the judicial conference. To learn from and work with key organizations and individuals.

October 10, 2000: Presentation: First Circuit Judicial Conference: First in a series of a series of Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Fred Friendly judicial conferences organized in conjunction with the Practicing Law Institute (click here to access PLI's website).

The Focus: Judges will reflect on the agenda generated by the May 3rd development project by responding to a hypothetical.  They will be guided by a panel including an expert in digital discovery, a plaintiff's lawyer, a defense lawyer, a prosecutor and a federal judge from the First Circuit.  Through this process the judges will refine their understanding of the complexities connected to Digital Discovery and will have the opportunity to propose their own recommendations.

The Method: The conference will be guided by those from the forefront of intellectual property, practitioners, judges, and information experts. Professor Nesson will moderate a face-to-face inquiry. The panelists will respond to a hypothetical that will highlight the more intricate and interesting issues of digital discovery.  The most insightful questions and problems from the workshop will be posed to the featured panelists. The fruits of the workshop will be edited and made accessible as elaboration and library on the subject.

The Goal: To simultaneously educate the judicial community and heighten our understanding of Digital Discovery.