Production Format Disputes, Production Fundamentals Series Part 4
A multi-part series on the fundamentals eDiscovery practitioners need to know about the preparation and production of ESI
by Matthew Verga, JD, Xact Data Discovery
In “The Final Countdown,” we discussed the importance of production and the primary production formats. In “The Nitty-Gritty and Other Reduplications,” we discussed other important production format considerations. In “Who Gets to Decide,” we discussed what the FRCP have to say about who selects the production format. In this Part, we review some actual production format disputes.
Now that we have reviewed how the production format selection process is supposed to work under the FRCP, let’s take a look at some recent cases to see the disputes that arise and how courts are applying those rules in practice.