The new edition of Arkfeld's Best Practices Guide: Information Technology Primer for Legal Professionals, is a resource for understanding the "information technology infrastructure" of organizations, locating "electronically stored information" (ESI), and managing it using computer technology. This primer is intended to be used as a general reference for the identification, preservation, collection and disclosure of ESI.

Contents include:

• Overview of IT in organizations and electronic discovery
• Characteristics & forms of "electronically stored information" (ESI)
• IT infrastructure: people, hardware, software, networks
• ESI file system, concealment and types
• ESI sources and locations
• Using computer technology to search, identify, filter, review, produce and present ESI