It Took a While, But the Sedona Conference Has Finalized its Guide for “Possession, Custody, or Control” of ESI: eDiscovery Best Practices

By Doug Austin

A year ago in April (i.e. April 2015), The Sedona Conference® released a new public comment version of a guide designed to provide guidance to defining the phrase “possession, custody, or control” as it’s used in Federal Rules 34 and 45 (we covered it here). Earlier this month, the final version of that guide was released.

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As we noted then, Rule 34(a) and Rule 45(a) obligate a party responding to a document request or subpoena to produce “documents, electronically stored information,…

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  • Doug Austin

    Doug Austin is the editor and founder of eDiscovery Today and an EDRM Global Advisory Council Leader.

    Doug is an established eDiscovery thought leader with over 30 years of experience providing eDiscovery best practices, legal technology consulting and technical project management services to numerous commercial and government clients.

    Doug has published a daily blog since 2010 and has written numerous articles and white papers. He has received the JD Supra Readers Choice Award as the Top eDiscovery Author for 2017 and 2018 and a JD Supra Readers Choice Award as a Top Cybersecurity Author for 2019.

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