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Non-traditional Sources of e-Data In Investigations

By David Sumner and Damon Reissman
December 28, 2006

From teenagers to retirees, the digital revolution has touched almost all aspects of our everyday lives. Widespread business use of voice mail, e-mail, instant messaging (IM), and sales-management systems, as well as use of portable devices, simplifies our work in many ways, but also makes electronic discovery much more complex.

This article describes some of the more prominent non-traditional sources of electronic data. The reader should be mindful of these sources when he or she develops a discovery work plan ' and should weigh the costs and benefits of each option.

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