Over the last few years, firms, businesses and courts have all struggled with the electronic revolution ? especially in the area of data management. Metadata, hidden electronic information, has become increasingly more important in the legal community as more practitioners realize that it now has serious implications on how we all practice law. The 2006 Amendments to the FRCP reflect this shift into an electronic era and have a major impact on the handling of metadata. This shift has also wreaked havoc on traditional notions of jurisdiction. The rapid development of information and communication technologies has revolutionized the practices of lawyers and businesses alike, and none of these technologies have sparked the revolution and affected jurisdiction quite as much as the Internet.
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