The Digital Discovery Process

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1. What is the actual process followed in finding, tracking, sorting, culling, and turning over electronic documents?

2. Do you trust the adequacy of electronic searches? Does your answer differ depending on whether the electronic search is used for relevance? for proprietary information? for privilege? Would you consider relying on an electronic search to cull out privileged documents if the plaintiff would agree to suspend the inadvertent waiver rule and postpone privilege objections until trial?

3. Would you resist turning over documents in native format? Why? What advantage does doing so give the other side?