Information that is crucial to your case can be stored just about anywhere in Blackberries, on home computers, in cellphones, in voicemail transcription programs, on flash drives, in native files, in metadata… Knowing what you re looking for is essential, but understanding technology and data storage systems can literally make or break your discovery efforts and your case. If you can’t write targeted discovery requests, you won’t get all the information you need. With Electronic Discovery: Law and Practice, Second Edition, you’ll have the first single-source guide to the emerging law of electronic discovery and delivering reliable guidance on such topics as:
Duty to Preserve Electronic Evidence
Spoliation
Document Retention Policies and Electronic Information
Cost Shifting in Electronic Discovery
Evidentiary Issues
Inadvertent Waiver
Table of State eDiscovery rules
Litigation Hold Notices
Application of the Work Product Doctrine to Litigation Support Systems
Collection, Culling and Coding of ESI
Inspection of Hard Disks in Civil Litigation
Privacy Concerns
Disclosure under FOIA
Fully grasp the complexities of data sources and IT systems as they relate to electronic discovery, including cutting-edge software tools that facilitate discovery and litigation. Achieve a cooperative and efficient approach to conducting cost-effective ESI discovery. Employ sophisticated and effective discovery tools, including concept and contextual searching, statistical sampling, relationship mapping, and artificial intelligence that help automate the discovery process, reduce costs and enhance process and information integrity
Written by Adam Cohen of Ernst and Young and David Lender of Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP, Electronic Discovery: Law and Practice, Second Edition, offers detailed analysis and guidance on the legal aspects of electronic discovery never before collected in such a comprehensive guide. You’ll save time on research while benefiting from the knowledge and experience of the leading experts.
