Deidre said

<I think one of the stickiest issues for the coming year or two will be the 
issue
of relevance and metadata -- the test for producing information is its 
likely
"relevance" to the issue at hand.  Most judges will say that file date/time
stamp is rarely relevant .>

If in litigation questions hinge on "who knew what when" which I understand 
comes up a lot, then wouldn't you guess that,  as metadata becomes 
demystified in our society over time, lawyers may become more comfortable 
relying on it to prove "who knew what when". For non-email electronic 
records, I mean, since email has the date/time visible and capturable as 
.pdf



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