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.




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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