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Antiforensics Practices Can Complicate E-Discovery Investigations

With the rise of e-discovery, attorneys have necessarily become acquainted with the inner workings of computer systems. File system metadata is often crucial to proving critical points at trial, and computer forensics has shown itself to be an essential tool for discovering lost files and revealing hidden metadata. But as the lawyers and investigators grow [...]

Authenticating E-Discovery As Evidence

Since the e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect in December 2006, much has been said about the need for organizations to produce electronic evidence (including email, instant messaging (IM) logs and other electronically stored information) during litigation, but since that time a new issue has emerged: can that e-discovery [...]

How to overcome E-Discovery Challenges with New Technologies

Business communications are now dominated by electronic storage and devices like emails, hard drives, flash drives etc… and the volume of data used and stored is increasing at astonishing rate. Here comes the Electronic discovery. After the recent amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) which recognizes increasing importance of electronically stored information [...]

Electronic Data Discovery introduction

Electronic Data Discovery introduction Electronic data discovery quickly is becoming mainstream in civil discovery. Recent surveys confirm that more than 90 percent of all documents produced since 1999 were created in digital form. You don’t need surveys to prove that point; just walk into any office these days and the first thing you will see [...]

Rising Costs of E-Discovery Requirements Impacting Litigants

The first electronic database I supervised in litigation ended up costing a dollar a page. And that was before a single lawyer had looked at any of it. Making TIFF images, using Optical Character Recognition software to create searchable text, entering basic descriptive coding for each document and exporting all this data into a usable [...]