Firms installing apps, anticipating legal requirements
New rules for electronic discovery of documents in civil cases go into effect in December. Lack of compliance could result in significant penalties for companies, legal experts and executives said.
The new rules were created by an advisory committee to the Judicial Conference of the United States, which oversees administrative and policy issues for federal courts, and were adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 1, said Ron Hedges, magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court in Newark.
Unless Congress acts to change the rules, they will become effective on Dec. 1, Hedges said.
[...] The purpose of these new rules is to provide early structure, uniformity and predictability. But the reality is that right from the get-go, the parties in a lawsuit will need to start evaluating with their IT teams and outside counsel where they stand in terms of their own electronic data. Tags: investigation, investigator, private investigator, e-discovery, electronic data discovery [...]
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