Ten years ago when lawyers spoke of electronically stored information, or ESI, in most Florida state court cases they got strange looks and chuckles. Five years ago, lawyers in Florida began to slowly open their eyes to electronic discovery and began to view it as both a sword and a shield in litigation. And if you think you are behind the technology power curve now, consider that about five years ago my young nephew told me that emails were something older people used to send documents back and forth! Thanks, kid.
Still, even today most Florida lawyers regard e-discovery as something they’d hire younger lawyers to handle and something they might have to address in the future. Well, the future is now as the saying goes.
