Of the many changes former U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck saw during his decades on the bench at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, there is one in particular that is continuing to cause him growing concern.
“When I got on the bench in 1995, the privilege logs in a typical case [were] two to three pages, maybe 50-100 entries,” he said during the Legalweek 2024 Judges Debate keynote in January. “Now the privilege logs are like little novels, and there may be 10,000 or more entries. That is very expensive and is often useless to the other side in figuring out what is or isn’t privileged.”
