The May 2015 meeting of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation will take place May 7-9 in Washington, D.C.
The meeting brings together tax practitioners from around the country to discuss the latest federal policies, initiatives, regulations, legislative forecasts and planning ideas.
On the agenda is “Memories fade but emails are forever: New electronic discovery rules in U.S. Tax Court,” a panel that will be moderated by Gunster attorney Martin Press.
Last fall, in Dynamo Holdings, LP v. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court held that taxpayers could use predictive coding to help identify nonprivileged electronically stored information in discovery requests. This was a first for the Tax Court, and it will make e-discovery requests less expensive for litigants and should speed up the process.
The e-discovery panel will discuss
- how predictive coding differs from manual discovery response; and
- implementation of predictive coding issues, such as selection of search terms and seed documents.
The panel is scheduled to begin at 8:40 a.m. on Friday, May 8, as part of the Administrative Practice program. For more information, see the final May 2015 meeting program.
Press has served tax clients in planning, international issues and tax controversies. Prior to becoming a tax lawyer, he was employed by three of the Big Four accounting firms.
The ABA Section of Taxation provides education about taxes and tax systems, as well as leadership to support the development of an equitable, efficient and workable tax system.
For more information, visit the event page on the ABA website.
