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A Turbulent Year for E-Discovery

By Robert J. Ambrogi

Within the electronic-discovery industry, the annual Socha-Gelbmann survey is as much anticipated as the Academy Awards are within the film industry. Every year since 2003, George Socha and Tom Gelbmann have conducted their survey of the e-discovery market, gathering information from providers, consumers and other sources and then slicing and dicing the data. And as has become a tradition, before they release the full survey, they provide an exclusive sneak-peak in the pages of Law Technology News. One major change in the survey is that it no longer ranks EDD providers. "We felt rankings had become counterproductive, and were being used by too many people as a main or the sole reason to select or reject a provider." But the survey continues its tradition of providing both high-level and specific perspectives on the industry. And its high-level assessment could not be more direct: "These are strange times indeed for the world of electronic data discovery." A variety of factors make for these strange times, the economy no doubt a major one. Among the observations Socha and Gelbmann offer: Many providers have suffered from dwindling revenues and some have failed. As quickly as established providers fail, new ones appear, with the...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).