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Article: How Do the New Rules on Electronic Discovery Affect You?
- Article from:
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- January 9, 2007
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Originally published December 14, 2006
On December 1, 2006, the recent revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to electronic discovery ("new Rules") went into effect. The effect of these new Rules has been substantially exaggerated, if not misunderstood, by the press. For example, contrary to some newspaper accounts, the Rules do not give rise to an affirmative obligation to maintain every electronic document and organize them for retrieval indefinitely.
So what do the new Rules really mean for your company? The enactment of these new Rules reflects a fundamental recognition by the federal judiciary that electronic documents play a ...