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Law Practice

Mar. 3, 2012

eDiscovery: New federal protocol for criminal cases

New federal guidelines promote uniform treatment of eDiscovery in criminal proceedings.

A. Marco Turk

Emeritus Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills

Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com

A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.

My first impression of the practice of law back in 1961 was that, unlike lawyers practicing civil law, those in the criminal arena did not have to worry much about preparing lots of paperwork and carrying many files to court. It was a "paperless" practice so that, at the very most, lawyers in criminal practice customarily showed up in court with nothing but a thin manila folder absent any semblance of a briefcase.

Today, eDiscovery advancements have moved from the civil arena to ...

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