Uncivil Procedure

7: Cooperation

Episode Summary

Cooperation: the cause of—and solution to—many a lawyer’s frustration. That’s our topic in this episode of Uncivil Procedure: The e-Discovery Podcast. Listen in to hear David Cohen of Reed Smith and the Relativity crew’s thoughts on teaching cats tricks, transparency versus translucency in the practice of law, and what artistic collaboration could soon take the music world by storm.

Episode Notes

In this episode of Uncivil Procedure, David Cohen—partner and chair of records and e-discovery at Reed Smith—discusses cooperation with the gang from Relativity: David Horrigan, Malinda Lee, Constantine Pappas, Danny Pelc, and Anna Siroonian. For lawyers, this a loaded subject to say the least.

Some important questions come to mind when it comes to cooperation:

• When is it in lawyers’—and their clients’—best interests to cooperate with opposing counsel, and when might it come back to bite them?
• Just how expensive can a pre-nuptial agreement between Jay-Z and Beyoncé be?
• What artistic collaboration promises to be music’s next smash hit?

The panelists also discuss what it means to be transparent or translucent with opposing counsel, the origin of David Horrigan’s distaste for kimono metaphors, and more.

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