Shira Scheindlin
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Scheindlin is constantly in the spotlight. She’s ruled in numerous high-profile cases, including the three trials of mobster John Gotti Jr., and New York’s “stop and frisk” anti-crime campaign. Yet she is perhaps best known for her trailblazing opinions in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg (I-V, issued in 2003 through 2005), which addressed legal holds on electronically created documents.
“This issue was out there for any judge to grab because [e-discovery] is now part of any case,” says Scheindlin. “I just became interested in it earlier than almost anybody else.”
Scheindlin says that Zubulake has been a “guiding light for the country for both the federal and the state courts. … The New York state court adopted the Zubulake standard just a year ago, so that case has a long, long life.”
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