Lawyers miss the boat on eDiscovery
With all this talk about eDiscovery and so many companies pushing tools to protect or gain access to key digital information, you would think that lawyers would get it. Experts say that lawyers relying on the disclosure of computer evidence may be missing out on valuable clues if they are accepting CD-Rs containing the requested material. What's wrong with that? Plenty, according to some experts. Alan Philips, chief executive at 7safe, said that taking snapshots and burning them to CDs may provide lots of documents, but no assurance of getting everything that is needed. It is better, he said, to take complete hard drive scans that show what documents have been deleted and where they have been moved.
For more on this pressing digital issue:
- Check out this Vnunet article
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By benjaminwright | Posted 11:40am | May 19, 2008
E-discovery reflects the natural collision of technology and legal practice. As an enterprise creates an ever-growing mountain of records, adversaries of course want access to it. Knowing that litigation and e-discovery are inevitable, an enterprise can use technology proactively to make records more benign. What do you think? --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/05/nix-smoking-gun-e-discovery.html