Parent-child Relationships

Parent-child relationships is a term used in e-discovery to describe a chain of documents that stems from a single e-mail or storage folder. These types of relationships are primarily encountered when a party is faced with a discovery request for e-mail. A child (i.e., an attachment) is connected to or embedded in the parent (i.e., an e-mail or Zip file) directly above it.

Parent-child relationships is a term used in e-discovery to describe a chain of documents that stems from a single e-mail or storage folder. These types of relationships are primarily encountered when a party is faced with a discovery request for e-mail. A "child" (i.e., an attachment) is connected to or embedded in the "parent" (i.e., an e-mail or Zip file) directly above it.