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Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges [Superseded]

Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, Elizabeth C. Wiggins, Ronald J. Hedges
January 1, 2007

This pocket guide helps federal judges manage the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI). It covers issues unique to the discovery of ESI, including its scope, the allocation of costs, the form of production, the waiver of privilege and work product protection, and the preservation of data and spoliation.

Superseded by Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition (2012).

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Discovery & Disclosure | Electronic Discovery | Electronically Stored Information (ESI) | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure | Fed. R. Civil P. 26 | Fed. R. Civil P. 45 | Federal Rules of Evidence | Fed. R. Evid. 502 | Pocket Guides