Discovering e-discovery

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Abstract: In today’s digital age, the ubiquity of “electronically stored information” (ESI) has profoundly changed the way litigants conduct discovery — so much so that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to address the specific issues surrounding ESI. This brief article reviews several of these amendments and their implications, including the concept of discovery requests designed not to elicit relevant ESI, but to elicit information about the procedures or methods a party used to search for responsive ESI. Ruiz-Bueno v. Scott, No. 2:12-cv-0809 (S.D. Ohio 11/15/201