Arkfeld's Best Practices Guide Information Technology Primer for Legal Professionals 2009-2010

Arkfeld's Best Practices Guide: Information Technology Primer for Legal Professionals, is a resource for understanding the "information technology infrastructure" of organizations, locating "electronically stored information" (ESI), and managing it using computer technology. This primer is intended to be used as a general reference for the identification, preservation, collection and disclosure of ESI. Contents include: • Overview of IT in organizations and electronic discovery • Characteristics & forms of "electronically stored information" (ESI) • IT infrastructure: people, hardware, software, networks • ESI file system, concealment and types • ESI sources and locations • Using computer technology to search, identify, filter, review, produce and present ESI