The new edition of Arkfeld's Best Practices Guide: Information Technology Primer for Legal Professionals, is a resource for understanding the "information technology infrastructure" of organizations, locating "electronically stored information" (ESI), and managing it using computer technology. This primer is intended to be used as a general reference for the identification, preservation, collection and disclosure of ESI.

Contents include:

•  Overview of IT in organizations and electronic discovery

•  Characteristics & forms of "electronically stored information" (ESI)

•  IT infrastructure: people, hardware, software, networks

•  ESI file system, concealment and types

•  ESI sources and locations

•  Using computer technology to search, identify, filter, review, produce and present ESI