From teenagers to retirees, the digital revolution has touched almost all aspects of our everyday lives. Widespread business use of voice mail, e-mail, instant messaging (IM), and salesmanagement systems, as well as use of portable devices, simplifies our work in many ways, but also makes electronic discovery much more complex.
This article describes some of the more prominent non-traditional sources of electronic data. The reader should be mindful of these sources when he or she develops a discovery work plan –– and should weigh the costs and benefits of each option.
The amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that took effect last month added electronically stored information (ESI) to the official list of items subject to production. Typical ESI sources include:
- Forensic copies of personal computers;
- Company file servers;
- e-Mail servers; and
- Backup tapes.
This article is posted with permission from the February 2007 edition of the Law Journal Newsletters - E-discovery Law & Strategy. © 2007 ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved.
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