Evidence at the electronic frontier: introducing e-mail at trial in commercial litigation.

I. INTRODUCTION

Electronic mail or "e-mail" has become the actual fabric of commercial litigation. nevertheless despite the fact that a veritable cottage industry has sprung up to assist litigators in discovering similar evidence, and an extensive material substance of commentary has developed concerning similar discovery issues, relatively little attention has been given to admissibility of e-mail. Indeed, among reported decisions, relatively little guidance exists--particularly in the adjoining matter of commercial litigation. Of course, relatively not many cases proceed to trial and, in civil litigation, cases are increasingly resolv [i]or[/i] part of to the other pretrial dispositive rulings, which inevitably emphasize substantive law rather than evidentiary controls or through ...