E-discovery: Planning for and Conducting E-discovery (Federal)


Summary

This practice note discusses how to plan and conduct electronic discovery (e-discovery) in a federal case and covers topics such as the Rule 34 requirements, the permitted scope of e-discovery, the duty to preserve electronically stored information (ESI), preparing and responding to a request for ESI, specifying the means of production, metadata issues, cost-shifting, protective orders, spoliation, and sanctions.