Part I of II. Part two can be found here.
Recently, two clients for whom our company had collected and produced e-discovery brought to us e-discovery produced to them by their opponents. In both cases, the collections were messes. In one, the electronically stored information was a collection of files with no organizing principle. If file1 was an e-mail, for example, you could not tell whether file2, a PDF, was an attachment to file1 (a”parent-child” relationship) or whether the files stood independently; similarly, you could not tell whether any of the files were from the same folder. No database format had been provided by the opponents, so neither was the data organized nor was metadata supplied in fields in a database. Moreover, because the files were electronically printed in Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), metadata was inaccessible.
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