Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys: 6.2.15 Seeking Production of ESI in an Appropriate Format
Rule 34 allows a requesting party to specify the form or forms in which ESI is to be produced.2566 The Advisory Committee recognized the importance of this, since “different forms of production may be appropriate for different types” of ESI and specifying “the desired form or forms may facilitate the orderly, efficient, and cost-effective discovery” of ESI.2567 For example: