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A STUDENT ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY PRIMER AN ESSENTIAL COMPANION FOR CIVIL PROCEDURE COURSES WILLIAM F. HAMILTON JENNIFER M. SMITH hamiltonw@law.ufl.edu jennifer.smith@famu.edu.

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1 A STUDENT ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY PRIMER AN ESSENTIAL COMPANION FOR CIVIL PROCEDURE COURSES
WILLIAM F. HAMILTON JENNIFER M. SMITH

2 What is [Electronic] Discovery?
Copyright © 2017 Carolina Academic Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

3 Social and Legal Forces Driving Digitization
Nearly all personal and business activities are done using computers Government activities also are computerized, pursuant to laws at federal and state level s have exceeded telephone and postal communications Millions of transactions with legal relevance are occurring using computers “Social Media,” embraced by world culture is now used by business Copyright © 2017 Carolina Academic Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

4 “There can be no real justice without truth, and in today’s world of civil litigation, no real truth without e-discovery. That is because writings are the key evidence in most cases and almost all writings today are electronic.” -Ralph Losey, August 21, 2010 Copyright © 2017 Carolina Academic Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

5 What are “electronic documents”?
Information created, stored, and/or utilized using computer technology Office productivity documents such as word processing files and databases Internet and web traffic Information on peripheral and mobile devices Computer-based record storage, such as disks, tapes, and drives Copyright © 2017 Carolina Academic Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

6 What Makes ESI Different from Paper?
E-documents are easy to create, edit, and circulate s have replaced telephone and water-cooler conversations E-documents are inexpensive to store E-documents are fragile but hard to completely delete/destroy Copyright © 2017 Carolina Academic Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

7 Hypothetical email system
ESI Volume Hypothetical system 100 employees 25 messages/employee/day 250 full working days/year 625,000 messages/per year Copyright © 2017 Carolina Academic Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

8 ESI Locations Email servers Laptop computers Home computers
Palm Pilots Hard drives Other hard drives and servers in organization (including jump drives) Outside recipients (hard drives, servers, backups) Servers Backup media Digital phone records, car systems, smart cards, etc.… Copyright © 2017 Carolina Academic Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

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