Executive Summary
The study of over 700+ end users found that organizations DO believe that compliance concerns related to information management are here to stay and that they are not just a passing fad. Yet, awareness of what constitutes "compliance" is extremely narrow.
AIIM - The ECM Association
8/14/2006

Relevance is defined in the Federal Rules of Evidence as “evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

An overview of Discovery and ESI.

Digital (electronic) data is stored in a variety of places: an organization’s servers, individual desktops backup tapes, employees’ home computers, PDA's, the list goes on… Electronic data may also exist in forms that are relatively inaccessible, such as deleted or fragmented data. Whether a particular potential source of electronic data should be reviewed for production will depend on the nature of the matter, the nature of the source, and the nature of the data that may reasonably be expected to be found.

Socha Consulting maintains a list of electronic discovery vendors, consultants and service providers.