E-Discovery can be Painless

I just stumbled upon an excellent article about the growing importance of e-Discovery, especially at law firms. The piece touches on new legal codes requiring companies to back up digital information, as well as ways to transition into the process seamlessly and painlessly. From the article:

"At first glance, it can look daunting. Electronic data discovery -- requesting documents that may exist only on somebody's hard drive, cell phone or PDA -- has been used for several years but got a big push into mainstream law practice when the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure clarified rights and procedures in 2006, according to John Ferroli, a partner in the Grand Rapids office of the Dykema law firm. Far more data is created electronically than on paper today, so the volume of potentially important e-documents in any given case could be staggering."