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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 12, 2008

Rules of Evidence Should Codify Challenges of the Digital Age

Forum Column - By Joseph Burton - Until the rules of evidence are modified to address the unique aspects of digital information, practitioners will have to struggle to make the old rules fit.

FORUM COLUMN

By Joseph Burton
This article appears on Page 6.

      The revolution in the creation and use of digital information has begun to impact the legal system in two ways. The first, which has been widely discussed in several media, is in the preservation, identification, collection and production of this information for discovery in civil litigation. The second, and more far-reaching, impact is just beginning to be recog...

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