Where e-discovery went next
magazines|November 2011It’s e-discovery Jim, but not as we know it
GET YOUR COPY NOW
WHAT'S INSIDE?
Jonathan Maas, assistant director at Ernst & Young, talks to Rupert White about how the role of the law firm in e-discovery is changing
E-discovery is now about much more than just document review – Joanna Goodman reports on what the new tools can do for your firm and clients
Johannes Scholtes, ZyLAB’s chairman and chief strategy officer, reveals the big challenges in e-discovery – and some solutions
ISSUE IN BRIEF
How did e-discovery get so interesting? It used to be one of the most routine things – now it’s the only way we’ll drag the cost of litigation down (if we care to). But it’s got another trick up its sleeve: it can help law firms and clients be much better information managers, which is more important than many people realise.
If you’re thinking this issue should be called ‘E-disclosure’, you have a point – but no, we don’t agree. Even our keynote interviewee, Jonathan Maas, has given up calling it e-disclosure. I think calling the technology and process of automated/electronic sifting and assessment of electronically stored information ‘e-discovery’ helps separate it from ‘disclosure’.
TAMING THE DATA MONSTER
Rupert White talks to Jonathan Maas, assistant director at Ernst & Young about why the role of the law firm in disclosure is changing – and how e-discovery tools are helping firms inside their own walls
EMPOWERING LITIGATION SUPPORT
E-discovery is now about much more than just document review – the tools can be used in fee-earning and information management, and the people are having to learn a new basket of skills, Joanna Goodman reports
ADVANTAGE, TECHNOLOGY
Johannes Scholtes, ZyLAB’s chairman and chief strategy officer, reveals the big challenges in e-discovery – and some solutions
