Understanding the different production formats makes it easier for inside counsel to make better choices and manage their budgets. Sometimes it's a struggle to choose the “best” format for production.

Over the last year, requests and productions of native-format documents have featured regularly in ediscovery cases resolved by the courts. These cases have demonstrated how differently litigants—and ...

With some electronically stored information (ESI), what you see is what you get. A simple screenshot, PDF, or TIFF image may convey all the information that a litigant needs. But that’s not the case ...

Right now, the tides of e-discovery favor production of electronically stored information (ESI) in native form — i.e., within the original application in which it was created. Because no outlay is ...