A newly proposed adjustment to ethics rules, if adopted, would permit attorneys to access the embedded metadata of documents produced in electronic discovery, but only as long as the metadata doesn’t appear to have been transmitted in error—the same way New Jersey lawyers have been required to treat the paper and electronic documents themselves.
That’s one recommendation in a report by the Working Group on Ethical Issues Involving Metadata in Electronic Documents, which also urged discovery rule amendments.
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