By Doug Austin
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A newly proposed adjustment to ethics rules in New Jersey would restrict attorneys from accessing metadata in documents if the metadata was inadvertently sent.
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As discussed in the New Jersey Law Journal – Proposal Burdens Recipient in Ethics of Metadata E-Discovery, by David Gialanella (subscription required) – attorneys would be permitted to access the embedded metadata of documents produced in electronic discovery, but only as long as the metadata doesn’t appear to have been…
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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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