Modern e-Discovery software can extract hundreds of metadata fields from documents. Extracted metadata is typically stored in a back-end database and a subset of it is exported and included in the e-Discovery production or review database. We often receive questions regarding which metadata fields should be included in an e-Discovery review database or which metadata fields should be requested during an electronic document production.
The answers to these questions depend on the requirements of each case and should ultimately be determined by the legal team. That said, we have prepared the following field list as an example, with the hope that it will serve as a good starting point.