IG, E-discovery pros to win with FRCP changes.

PositionE-DISCOVERY - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Brief article

There will be two big winners should the proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) clear the U.S. Supreme Court as expected: information governance professionals and e-discovery consultants. That is a prediction made by Helen Geib, general counsel and practice support consultant for QDiscovery, in a recent article in Law Technology News.

The proposed changes emphasize the need to 1) know what electronically stored information (ESI) the client has; 2) know it early in the case; and 3) understand the technology for handling the data. "The amendments' focus on preservation is a strong argument for better information governance," reasoned Geib. "In-house counsel must know the what, where, why, who, and how of their company's ESI to effectively...

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