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Tom O'Connor

Tom O'Connor

Tom O'Connor is Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center in New Orleans, a nationally known e-discovery consultant, speaker, and author of "eDiscovery for the Rest of Us."

Oct 13, 2026

5:43
So welcome, Tom, back to the Risk Matrix, baby.
5:47
Thank you.
5:47
Go Irish.
5:49
Yeah.
5:51
So great to be here.
5:52
We had a great conversation last time and looking forward to your questions for this morning.
5:58
I think the topic was data mapping, huh? Absolutely.

5 MINS LATER

11:25
you I've never done that.
8:54
Their locations.
8:54
Copies of...
8:55
Their locations, exactly.
8:57
Everything is stored electronically now, and so the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were changed, uh, um, about 15, 16 years ago to reflect that and to add the definition of ESI into the definition of documents.
9:13
So in federal court, a document now, you don't even need a separate request.
9:18
A document by definition includes any electronic data.
9:23
Um, and they further go on to say that that's, um, anything that's relevant, uh, or potentially relevant, uh, in a case, something that go- could go to prove, um, uh, a, a, a key point in a case.

36 MINS LATER

45:39
Y'all get into that?

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