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Specialists Should Be Diligent When Acquiring ESI Through LAW

By Todd M. Haley
May 28, 2008
As the courts are clarifying the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, good e-discovery specialists must diligently review the options, configurations and protocols of e-discovery products to ensure that the proper options are selected to match these new rules. One of the products available for electronically stored information ('ESI') acquisition is Legal Access Ware PreDiscovery ('LAW'), a production-level scanning and e-discovery processing/production software with many options to consider in relation to these rules.

It is not the application's ability to handle a project, but rather specialists' ability to understand the specific e-discovery requirements discussed in the initial Rule 26(f) discovery planning conference and how they relate to the acquisition, processing and production of ESI within LAW that counts. In addition, it is important for legal teams to understand these concepts so that the proper direction can be given to their respective technology personnel and solutions providers.

Specialists should be attentive to ESI acquisition options, which are essential to a successful processing project. ESI acquisition is defined as the importing of collected ESI, either forensically or not, that are provided to the specialists of a corporate litigation department, an outside law firm and/or an e-discovery solutions provider.

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