Trusts and Estates
Ca. Trs. & Estates Quarterly 2021, Volume 27, Issue 2
Content
- After Beckwith: An Update On the Interference With Inheritance Tort In California
- Chairs of Section Subcommittees
- Editorial Board
- From the Chair
- From the Editor-in-chief
- How To Invade Someone's Privacy 101
- Inside this Issue:
- Litigation Alert
- Tax Alert
- Tips of the Trade: New Standard For Appellate Review of Findings Supported By Clear and Convincing Evidence
- Weaponizing the Litigation Process - When Litigation Results In the Taking of Hostages
- Let's Get Digital! Esi In Trust and Estate Litigation, Part 1
LET’S GET DIGITAL! ESI IN TRUST AND ESTATE LITIGATION, PART 1
By Scott A. Fraser, Esq.* and Matthew R. Owens, Esq.**
MCLE Article
I. INTRODUCTION
The time has come to abandon the blurry, barely legible PDF copies of emails and other documents in discovery. Most documents used in trust and estate litigation matters are easily accessible in their native formats, which makes it much more efficient to produce and search through them. No longer should trust and estate practitioners print documents to respond to discovery requests, nor should they have to review paper copies when they receive discovery responses. This is especially true at a time when practitioners find themselves working remotely more than ever before. Indeed, it is time to get digital.