What term refers to preserving electronic communications for relevance?

• A. Discovery
• B. Rule 26.2
• C. eDiscovery
• D. Indictment

Answer: (C)

The concept being tested is the term for handling and preserving electronic data that may be relevant in a legal matter. eDiscovery covers the whole process of identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, and producing electronically stored information, including emails, texts, chats, and other digital communications, when they could be relevant to a case. A preservation hold is often used to prevent deletion of these items while the discovery process proceeds. This focus on electronic data distinguishes eDiscovery from general discovery, which can involve non-electronic information, and from Rule 26.2 (a specific procedural rule about witness disclosures) or an indictment (a formal criminal charge).