Both courts and legal organizations have struggled to keep up with the ever-growing complexity of digital evidence over the last few years. As new forms of digital technology have emerged and become relevant to civil litigation, attorneys have struggled with the question of authenticating that evidence.

The new Federal Rule of Evidence 902 amendments, which went into effect December 1, 2016, have attempted to ease complexity and costs for attorneys by calling for self-authentication of some digital evidence. However, many attorneys are still learning to navigate the new rule.

A panel at next week's Legaltech West conference hopes to bring light to some of the ways that the Rule 902 self-authentication of evidence amendments stand to change some of these practices. Dan Nichols, of counsel at Redgrave, Ann Marie Gibbs, e-discovery counsel at Redgrave, and Lea Malani Bays, of counsel at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, will speak to panel attendees about some of the ways the rule has impacted their work and can applied in practical circumstances.