Electronically stored information (ESI) often presents expensive challenges to organizations faced with legal discovery requests.

Up until recently the courts had accepted most claims that the cost of finding and producing ESI was too high and too for the responding party. However,recent decisions in federal courts, as well as changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,reflect a shift toward holding respondents (i.e., the providers of information requested during discovery) responsible to pay for producing ESI.

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