How to Cope in the Era of E-discovery

With the amendments to the federal rules regarding electronic discovery just over a year old and the amendments to the Maryland rules effective this month, the courts are adjusting to the reality that most business and personal communications — potential evidence in litigation — originate in and travel by computer.

Maryland’s Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm called striking the balance between timely justice and the rising cost of performing e-discovery, where potentially millions of pages of documents are prospective evidence, “a bigger challenge now than the system itself has ever faced.”