Nonetheless, few companies think much about the risks of electronic discovery until they face serious litigation.
In the meantime, counsel has been warned: electronic discovery is not the bailiwick of third-party vendors alone.
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It does to Ronald Hedges, a former magistrate judge and expert in the field of electronic discovery.
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Ten years later, the trend toward electronic discovery was evident to him and other vendors taking the lead.
The content of mobile messaging just as other forms of electronic communications, are subject to electronic discovery rules.
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Counsel may wish to address with prospective electronic discovery vendors many of the concerns I identified in the article above.
Issues related to electronic discovery, cloud computing, social media, and data privacy immediately come to mind.
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For those who look closely, there are plenty of examples of lawyer-led processes in electronic discovery that are letting us down.
For Karl Schieneman and Tim Opsitnick, the founders of ESIBytes, educating the public on electronic discovery is a labor of love.
Within this quickly emerging and expanding market, there is a pronounced increase in the acceptance and availability of cloud based electronic discovery offerings.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2006 modified the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to insure the ability to gain electronic discovery of messages.
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But even after Eliot Spitzer brandished the chain of e-mails he dug up, corporations seem blithely unaware of the legal damage that can be wrought in electronic discovery.
The power of the brand may well be evidenced by the fact that when I viewed the site within the past hour, a highly respected legal electronic discovery vendor was advertising in the headline banner.
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John Jessen, president of Seattle-based Electronic Evidence Discovery, says his business helping litigants discover legal evidence doubled in 1997, and doubled again in 1998.
The less electronic information that gets reviewed by lawyers, the less the discovery costs will be.
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