Electronic Discovery or E-Discovery (eDiscovery) refers to discovery which deals with information stored in electronic format – also referred to as Electronically Stored Information or ‘ESI.’ Electronic information is different from paper information because of its intangible form. Electronic information is usually accompanied by metadata, which isn’t present in paper information. Electronic discovery poses new challenges and opportunities for attorneys, paralegals, their clients, and the courts, as electronic information is collected, reviewed and produced. Electronic discovery is the subject of amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure effective December 1, 2006.
California’s Code of Civil Procedure has added Section 1985.8, known as the ‘Electronic Discovery Act,’ which establishes procedures for a person to obtain discovery of electronically stored information, in addition to documents and tangible things in the possession of any other party to the action. This section permits the inspection, copying, testing or sampling of electronically stored information.
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Examples of ESI include: computers, cell phones, emails, word, excel and acrobat files, servers, accounting databases, Web sites, third-party and off-site cloud backups, and any other electronically stored information which could be relevant evidence.
eDiscovery Supported File types:
.PST Archives
Most E-mail Client Archive Formats
All Microsoft Office Format Documents
All Corel Word Perfect Documents
CAD Drawings (.dmz)
All Image Formats
All Archive Formats (Zip, Tar, Rar, 7z, etc.)
And many more formats
eDiscovery Supported Media:
Computer Tower or Laptop
Hard Drive removed from a computer
External Hard Drive
Flash Media (Thumb or Jump Drive)
Optical Media (CD / DVD)
Any device that connects via eSata, USB 2.0/3.0, Firewire, PATA