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What information and data does your business have to keep

Our world is increasingly digital. All businesses including small companies now keep more information electronically. This highlights the question of what you must keep and what you can delete in the context of a business dispute. You can now easily save all your data, but should you Storage media is cheap. An external hard drive that can store more data that you can likely produce in ten lifetimes costs far less than the device on which you are reading this. But, keeping everything may not be practical or efficient. Not only does this create digital clutter, but if you ever need to have someone at a law firm look through it all, the electronic discovery costs can be enormous. Florida now has digital preservation obligations At first the Florida civil procedure rules differed slightly from their federal counterparts. Electronic discovery or eDiscovery is basically the  exchange of electronically stored information  or ESI in a civil lawsuit. The Federal Rules are on a five-yea...