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Production is the “Ringo” of the eDiscovery Phases: eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays

eDiscovery Daily

And, we have seen more cases related to disputes over production format, as some (but not enough) requesting parties are realizing that requesting native productions gives them more metadata about the produced ESI (while also making it more “tamper-proof”). paper, images or native files); Organization of files (e.g.,

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No Bates, No Problem for Native Files: eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays

eDiscovery Daily

Back then, I talked about accepting a file-level Bates number where each file is named with a prefix and a sequential number (just like a Bates number, only they’re not stamped in the file, but used as the file name).

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Why Does Production Have to be Such a Big Production?, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

A classic example is the more technologically sophisticated party requesting tiff, text and load files as a production format and the other party agreeing without realizing what that means and the process necessary to do it correctly. So, what seems to be the problem?