Electronic discovery has long flummoxed companies in litigation, as they struggle to decide which documents they should save and which ones can be safely destroyed, either in the paper shredder or on a reformatted hard drive.
Now a brave new world looms in the form of much-needed changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—which should give general counsels and corporate secretaries everywhere more guidance on how to navigate electronic discovery, and afford them some new protections as well.
