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Litigation

Jan. 23, 2002

High-Tech Evidence

Dicta Column - By Chris Santella, Documents have been an essential element in the discovery process for hundreds of years. Today, however, documents exist less and less in a paper format. They are created using personal computers with word-processing applications or e-mail programs, and more often than not, exist solely in electronically stored formats. These formats contain hidden bits of data that are beyond the reach of the writer, such as previous drafts of a document and files the user believes to have been deleted.

        Dicta Column
        
        By Chris Santella

        Documents have been an essential element in the discovery process for hundreds of years. Today, however, documents exist less and less in a paper format. They are created using personal computers with word-processing ...

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