Last week, the New Jersey Supreme Court accepted the recommendation of a task force it established to study whether New Jersey’s civil discovery and ethics rules should take account of “metadata” in ...

For the first time, a federal court has ruled that metadata — information related to the history, tracking or management of an electronic document — must be released if requested under the Freedom of ...

Arizona's Supreme Court, in a surprising but welcome ruling, has declared that electronic metadata is part of the public record under state law, in a case involving an Arizona police officer who ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court has adopted several amendments to the Court Rules, effective September 1, 2016. (http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/notices/2016/n160809a ...

The Arizona Supreme Court today ruled that metadata – information about the history, tracking and management of an electronic document – is subject to the state’s public records law. Several national ...

Metadata isn’t something that most lawyers spend a lot of time thinking about. Many probably don’t know what it is, or that it can easily hurt them and/or their clients. According to Wikipedia.com, ...

Litigators and litigation support professionals who have been practicing long enough recall the days when Bankers Boxes filled with original documents (or copies of originals) were the primary source ...

[1] Lange, Michele, et al., Electronic Evidence and Discovery: What Every Lawyer Should Know Now, (2009), at 2. [2] “Backup data is information that is not presently in use by an organization and is ...

Metadata can say a lot about a given document -- as well as the document's creator. Here's how to manage what types metadata appear in your Office documents to protect your security while still giving ...

How to let SharePoint users add just the right amount of information to make searching for files easier, without going overboard. Although SharePoint is primarily marketed as a collaboration platform, ...