Unfortunately, litigation or the threat of litigation is a fact of life for all businesses. One of the costliest parts of any lawsuit is discovery – the exchange of information and documents relevant to the issues involved. Today, most information is kept in some type of electronic
format. New federal rules have been established to deal with the specific issues involving production of electronically stored information. In addition, some state courts have already adopted these new rules, and it is expected that most courts will adopt similar rules.

Electronic information includes, for example, e-mail and attachments, databases, text documents, spreadsheets, instant and text messages, and digital voicemail messages. Electronic discovery (“EDiscovery”) requirements can be onerous because of the way that
electronic information is created, modified, stored, communicated, and deleted throughout a business’ computer system. It is estimated ... read more