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BigLaw: EDRM and the Pursuit of Universal Standards for eDiscovery and Electronically Stored Information

By Marin Feldman

Originally published on August 31, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter. TechnoLawyer publisher Neil J. Squillante contributed to this article. The challenges posed by paper discovery seem quaint by comparison to the electronically stored information (ESI) we face today. The ascendancy of electronic discovery (eDiscovery) reflects the social shift from the written word to the computerized one. To provide a framework for these new challenges, consultants George Socha of Socha Consulting and Thomas Gelbmann of Gelbmann & Associates launched the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) in May 2005. The Model That Now Guides the Industry The 2003 and 2004 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Surveys found that general counsel and their outside counsel were unable to compare vendors or distinguish quality providers from wannabes...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).