On December 1, 2006, certain Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to provide consistent ground rules for parties dealing with Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) in discovery.

The directives uniformly establish more rigorous standards covering what electronic information can be discovered, and also guidance for the form and method that information must be presented in.

Additionally, the judiciary is directed to ascertain whether or not organizations have adequately managed their electronic information or not.

Those organizations that can demonstrate good information management practices should be granted leniency, or a “safe harbor;” those that do not could be subject to direct access to their information systems.

We interview Matt Winstanley  to gain insight into E-Discovery.

Matt is a Senior Sales Engineer With Tower Software.