Extract from James A. Sherer and Nichole Sterling’s article “E-discovery, the Cloud and Blockchain – How New Practices May Require a ‘Back to School’ Approach”
The practice of e-discovery has always incorporated considerations of new and emerging technologies as well as related attorney competence. With the advent of cloud services and significant use by clients, e-discovery practitioners incorporated knowledge of those new platforms and offerings into their preservation strategies and requests for production, appropriately considering a variety of client and party uses of the cloud, especially for heavily used services such as email, customer relationship manager (CRM) platforms, and document storage and sharing.
