With the adoption of the 2006 amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), a new vocabulary was formally introduced to the law of discovery. Judges and litigants across the country grappled with phrases in the new rules such as "electronically stored information," "reasonably useable form or forms of production" and "the routine, good-faith operation of an electronic information system."

Records and IT professionals have had to consult with legal professionals on such topics as ephemeral data, metadata, and data migration.

In 2005, when The Sedona Principles and Sedona Guidelines were first published, they represented the state of the art and the legal and information professions' best hope. In early 2007, it became obvious that the originally published principles needed updating to reflect new FRCP rules, new case law and advances in technology.

A careful process was initiated to make sure that the Principles and Guidelines maintain their authority and consistency, while at the same time addressing new developments and new issues.

In this session, the editors of three Sedona ERM publications will first assess Sedona's influence on the 2006 revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and also Sedona's impact on court decisions. They will then discuss key changes in the updated editions of the Sedona Principles, the Sedona Guidelines and the Sedona Glossary.