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As soon as litigation is contemplated or threatened, it is essential for all parties and their counsel to go beyond paper file searching, and consider what electronic data and information exists that may need to be disclosed. Rules of Court generally require all parties to litigation to disclose to the other parties all relevant documents, whether the documents are helpful or hurtful to any particular party. Documents are defined in the Rules of Court to include electronic files and data. Accordingly, in addition to locating and preserving paper documents, each party to a lawsuit must take reasonable steps to locate and preserve electronic files containing data and information that can reasonably be expected to be relevant in the litigation.

Posted on Thu, 01 May 2008 13:17:29 -0500 at http://ezinearticles.com/?Electronic-Doc...id=1139943