SSP 376 - E-Discovery: Discovery and Preserving Important Information

0.5 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to instruct students on the basics of civil discovery with a focus on electronically storedinformation. Topics include a general overview of discovery, interrogatories, document requests, deposition, use ofcomputer programs in discovery, and the duty to preserve information.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. describe the basic tools of civil discovery;
2. demonstrate what triggers a duty to preserve information;
3. explain how to implement and monitor a litigation or legal hold on important information;
4. explain the scope and limits of the duty to preserve;
5. analyze e-discovery cases and procedural rules and apply them to actual or hypothetical fact patterns;
6. discuss proportionality and the Cooperation Proclamation;
7. prepare litigation documents relevant to e-discovery matters, including discovery requests, discovery responses,litigation hold notices, and preservation letters;
8. apply basic techniques for collection of social media;
9. apply basic techniques for setting up and using litigation review software; and
10. utilize some basic techniques for forensic copying of hard drives.