{"id":183,"date":"2018-06-27T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2020-09-24T04:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T08:15:47","slug":"legal-intelligencer-self-authentication-of-esi-under-federal-rule-of-evidence-902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-self-authentication-of-esi-under-federal-rule-of-evidence-902\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Self-Authentication of ESI Under Federal Rule of Evidence 902"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the June 21, 2018 edition of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelegalintelligencer.com\/\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty,\u00a0 and Kandis Kovalsky, Associate of Kang Haggerty, co-authored &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2018\/06\/21\/self-authentication-of-esi-under-federal-rule-of-evidence-902\/\">Self-Authentication of ESI Under Federal Rule of Evidence 902<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>In a recent annual Federal Bench Bar Conference in Philadelphia, a U.S. District Court judge warned of the perils of allowing clients to perform their own data and document collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent annual Federal Bench Bar Conference in Philadelphia, a U.S. District Court judge warned of the perils of allowing clients to perform their own data and document collection. As the judge wisely pointed out, this can be problematic as the lawyers owe a duty to the court to represent truthfully and accurately. If, for example, a client performed the data collection without proper supervision, the lawyer could not accurately represent that all responsive documents have been collected and produced. The 2015 amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37 provide dire consequences for failing to preserve electronically stored information (ESI), including monetary sanctions, dismissal of a claim, judgment in favor of the prejudiced party, suppression of evidence and adverse inference instructions. The recent changes to Federal Rule of Evidence 902, which addresses self-authenticating evidence, and is routinely relied on by civil trial lawyers, raises additional concerns with clients performing their own data collection.<\/p>\n<p>Self-authenticating evidence under Rule 902 is evidence that requires no extrinsic evidence to prove that it is what it purports to be. Common examples of self-authenticating evidence include newspapers, periodicals, signed and sealed public documents, and official publications. While the amendments to Rule 902 were created to address the unnecessary expense and inconvenience associated with having live testimony from multiple witnesses solely to authenticate electronic evidence, they also provide guidance on ESI collection and resolving authentication issues relating to ESI before trial.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-self-authentication-of-esi-under-federal-rule-of-evidence-902\/#more-183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the June 21, 2018 edition of\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty,\u00a0 and Kandis Kovalsky, Associate of Kang Haggerty, co-authored &#8220;Self-Authentication of ESI Under Federal Rule of Evidence 902.&#8221; In a recent annual Federal Bench Bar Conference in Philadelphia, a U.S. District Court judge warned of the perils of allowing clients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[480,414],"tags":[387,336,389,394],"coauthors":[535,565],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-litigation-and-dispute-resolution","category-publications","tag-data-collection","tag-legal-intelligencer","tag-self-authentication","tag-technology","publication_lawyer-edward-t-kang","publication_lawyer-kandis-kovalsky"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Intelligencer: Self-Authentication of ESI Under Federal Rule of Evidence 902 &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; June 27, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the June 21, 2018 edition of\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty,\u00a0 and Kandis Kovalsky, Associate of Kang Haggerty, &#8212; June 27, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-self-authentication-of-esi-under-federal-rule-of-evidence-902\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legal Intelligencer: Self-Authentication of ESI Under Federal Rule of Evidence 902 &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; June 27, 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the June 21, 2018 edition of\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty,\u00a0 and Kandis Kovalsky, Associate of Kang Haggerty, &#8212; June 27, 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-self-authentication-of-esi-under-federal-rule-of-evidence-902\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kang Haggerty News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-27T15:22:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-24T08:15:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KHFSocial.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward T. 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