SaaS - understanding the legal aspects of this model. How to . . . deal with clients. Indexing documents sought in discovery. United States v.
O’Keefe, Case No. Cr. 06-249 (D.D.C. Mining Metadata: the ethics debate. Metadata — which is embedded “data about data” — may reveal information about an electronic document’s creation and modification, including who authored or commented upon a draft, when they did so, and most importantly what edits or other contributions were made.
Placing a metadata “bug” in an e-mail enables the sender to determine the subsequent route of the e-mail, including the recipients’ comments. Many software programs that attorneys use to draft legal documents generate metadata. As guidelines continue to evolve for the discovery of increasingly complex electronically stored information (ESI), the issue of whether metadata must be included in production of ESI has been litigated with some frequency.