When lawyers negotiate what data is relevant to exchange under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, they determine not only the custodians, file locations, and file extensions, but they also define a so-called negotiated Boolean query. The content of such a negotiated Boolean is extremely important for both parties: the claiming party typically wants to get as much data as possible, often resulting in a legal phishing expedition
In one of my previous blogs, I discussed what to expect in so-called FRCP negotiated Boolean queries . The examples were based on the Lehman case