The Letter of the IT Law

Lawyers may have been the only ones paying attention, but it's been just over a year now since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) amendments on e-discovery went into effect, necessitating that companies take appropriate steps to improve how they respond to e-discovery requests, which basically refers to the methods by which electronically stored information is exchanged during a litigation process. The numbers from a recent survey on corporate e-discovery by on-demand archiving provider Fortiva show a rising problem in managing this information, as well as a rising number of resources devoted to solving it.