Federal and State Court Rulings on E-Discovery & Computer Forensics
Recent studies have estimated that just over 265,000 civil cases were filed
in Federal courts in 2002. Out of that number, approximately 5,000 cases
actually included significant levels of electronic discovery. That equates
to less than 2% of the cases filed.
As Judge Sidney Schenkier
of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois offered in a recent
conference on e-discovery in late April of 2004, there seem to be key
contributing factors to such a low percentage of utilization of e-discovery
in civil cases:
Lawyers simply do not possess enough knowledge about electronic evidence
discovery and how to implement it into their case strategies. Knowledge Transfer
Lawyers are fearful to
launch an e-discovery request because they anticipate a boomerang request
to be launched right back at their own client.Boomerang Solution
We have recently updated
our approach to presenting the growing list of case law reviews. As you
will see by the graphic below, each significant category pertaining to
e-discovery is posted along with rulings of any significance that you may
want to conduct some research on.
Computer Forensics & E-Discovery Case Law Review Chart
Computer
Forensics & E-Discovery Case Law Review Chart
