Product Roundup: E-discovery

E-discovery has become the buzzword on everyone's lips this year, thanks largely to the new US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which revised guidelines for producing electronic evidence last December. The revision means that companies that fail to produce electronic evidence in court may be granted leniency if they show a good faith effort to both preserve and produce the electronic data.

Until precedents are established by actual court cases, it remains unclear just what exactly good faith means, but in the meantime, most enterprises are trying to ensure they have documented practices in place for e-discovery purposes.