Michael Arkfeld

In the 1850s when Abraham Lincoln practiced law he managed his client's information using paper folders. Today, most practitioners still adhere to this way of practicing law, though now we see boxes upon boxes of paper documents. Times have changed. Computer technology and the Internet have transformed litigation from a sea of paper to a sea of ele... ctronic evidence. "According to a University of California study, 93% of all information generated during 1999 was generated in digital form, on computers. Only 7% of information originated in other media, such as paper." In re Bristol-Myers Squibb Securities Litigation, 205 F.R.D. 437, 440 n.2 (D.N.J. 2002). The volume is expanding at a dizzying rate. In 2002 alone about 5 exabytes of new information was created. "How big is five exabytes? If digitized with full formatting, the seventeen million books in the Library of Congress contain about 136 terabytes of information; five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in 37,000 new libraries the size of the Library of Congress book collections." Peter Lyman & Hal R. Varian, How Much Information, University of California at Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems (Oct. 27, 2003) available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info-2003. Now, whether your... click here to continue reading. Law Partner Publishing and LexisNexis announce the release of the 2nd Edition to the acclaimed Arkfeld on Electronic Discovery and Evidence treatise, Best Practices Guides for Litigation Readiness and Hold, ESI Pretrial Discovery - Strategies and Tactics, Eectronic Discovery and Evidence, and IT Primer for Legal Professionals. The CD-ROM contains the full text of the treatise, cases, and Best Practices Guides with checklists, forms, guidelines and other resources. It is available in a networked version. Go to www.lexisnexis.com/arkfeld to order your copies today. These devices typically include; personal computers, servers, networks, portable digital assistant devices and digital ...Read More