Guidelines Emerge with Rise in E-Discovery of Employee Devices

Companies that allow employees to use their own devices for work are increasingly facing thorny discovery disputes in litigation. Now, the influential Sedona Conference has issued a working paper addressing that problem.

Over the last twenty years employees have become accustomed to using their own personal devices for work. This has become known as "Bring Your Own Device" or "BYOD." With BYOD comes concerns about security, privacy, and discovery obligations. In January 2018, the Sedona Conference published the paper "Commentary on BYOD: Principles and Guidance for Developing Policies and Meeting Discovery Obligations."The paper's aim is to help organizations develop BYOD policies and reduce discovery disputes.