Pay attention to how the courts in your jurisdiction are handling electronic discovery. Deal with litigation immediately. Preventive maintenance is important in dealing with clients, so talk to them before it s too late. Digging for Data Gathering the electronic information is the first step. Many firms, faced with a pile of CDs, computer disks and hard drives, instruct their paralegals to spend the months it takes printing out documents, rescanning them, coding them into a database and then searching them for the relevant information.
Several companies offer electronic discovery services that manage such information.
Kate Marquess is a technology writer and Internet editor for the ABA Journal.