Electronic Files Are Fair Game in Discovery Phase

Computers and new technology may have simplified and streamlined many aspects of businesses, but electronic documents (in their various forms) have become a potential legal and operational pitfall that could be extremely costly to the uninformed.

That assessment and caution comes from three St. Louis attorneys whose practices concentrate on electronic legal documents, and from a law professor at Saint Louis University. They've all discovered that the phase of litigation known as "discovery" now routinely includes electronic discovery. In fact, it's not only included, it's required automatically.