Friday, December 7, 2007

FRCP and E-discovery: One Year Later

This week marks the first anniversary of changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which mandates the speedy recovery of electronically stored information. In the intervening year, oodles of vendors have tweaked their archiving products to meet the requirements of the FRCP, adding search and rapid retrieval capability, as well as the ability to audit operations.

In the next year, Mary Mack, technology counsel for FIOS, expects that e-discovery will be bolstered by two events: the subprime mortgage crisis and the Qualcomm vs. Broadcom suit. She talks about the impact of these events here.

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