e-Discovery 101: YMMV

From LeClairRyan’s e-Discovery 4-1-1 Newsletter:

CASE RESULTS DEPEND UPON A VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH CASE AND DO NOT GUARANTEE OR PREDICT A SIMILAR RESULT IN ANY FUTURE CASE”

I’m forced to use disclaimers a lot during my presentations.  Of course, this applies to many other areas of law practice, however, with the dizzying speed in which contradictory case rulings are being decided in eDiscovery specifically, I think their disclaimer is far more eloquent than what I usually say:

“It depends…”