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E-Discovery in Government Investigations: An Introduction
March 13, 2015
BY ADAM M. REICH
In 2013, Allison C. Stanton, Director of E-Discovery, FOIA, and Records for the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), acknowledged that "electronic evidence plays a tremendous role in investigations." Two years later, these words could not be truer. This article provides some basic guidance to attorneys new to counseling clients regarding production of electronically stored information (ESI) in response to government investigations.