The Sedona Conference Provides Guidance for Protection of Privileged ESI: eDiscovery Best Practices
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As volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) stored in the world doubles every 1.2 years, it becomes more challenging to identify the ESI that is subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege or work product protection and log and exclude that ESI from production. Federal Rule of Evidence 502 was intended to address waiver of such privilege claims and reduce the discovery costs, but many attorneys and judges don’t realize the protections the rule offers. Now, The Sedona Conference® has issued a new final commentary to “breathe some needed life” into the understanding and use of Rule 502.
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