Arkfeld's Best Practices Guide

ebook Information Technology Primer for Legal Professionals

By Michael R. Arkfeld

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NEWLY REVISED March, 2012. This completely revised guide provides a much needed primer in understanding key technological concepts and the "information technology infrastructure" of organizations. Understanding these IT areas will enable legal professionals to properly apply e-discovery legal mandates such as a "legal hold" in their cases. Included is a new section entitled Information Technology Discovery Questions for clients, in depositions, interrogatories, and requests to produce.

Contents include:

  • Overview of IT in organizations and the electronic discovery process
  • ESI characteristics, forms, types, file systems and structure of data
  • IT infrastructure of a company's IT people, hardware, software, networks. and backups
  • Sources, storage, locations, metadata and concealment of ESI with a special emphasis on e-mail, databases and Internet data
  • Identifying, locating and managing ESI using computer technology

    This eBook features links to Lexis Advance for further legal research options.

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