Is this different in any practical sense to an old fashioned request for physical paper documents?
The only difference I can think of is traditionally documents are destroyed after they are no longer needed. Now they can see “deleted” documents and document change history.
i.e. emails stored locally on a personal or company server can be permanently destroyed. Traditional email systems won’t have a change history of the email writing process)
(I imagine all sorts of games could be played by lawyers with access to this additional types of information.)
The only difference I can think of is traditionally documents are destroyed after they are no longer needed. Now they can see “deleted” documents and document change history.
i.e. emails stored locally on a personal or company server can be permanently destroyed. Traditional email systems won’t have a change history of the email writing process)
(I imagine all sorts of games could be played by lawyers with access to this additional types of information.)