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Leveling the Playing Field

The age of ESI changed everything in terms of how quickly and easily documents are created and then stored. As a consequence, every corporate defendant in a product liability case today can expect to spend thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars producing documents in discovery.

37 minute read March 28, 2012 at 02:04 PM
By
Michael L. Junk and John McNulty
Leveling the Playing Field

Document production: What once consisted of collecting a few hardcopy files from a relatively short list of “key” custodians now typically requires the retention of litigation-support specialists to accomplish not only the imaging and production of hardcopy files, but also the identification, extraction, and production of relevant electronically stored information (ESI) from computers, databases, servers, and even disaster recovery systems.

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