Welcome to Discovering Electronic Discovery!

(also known as: "Discovering E-Discovery")


What's the purpose of this blog?
It is to share my insights about the world of electronic discovery (also known as e-discovery).

This answer leads to the next question: What is electronic discovery?

Well, e-discovery is legal discovery - part of the legal process where one side in a dispute can request documents from the other side. The 'electronic' part of e-discovery usually refers to documents that were created not on paper, but electronically - emails, spreadsheets, etc. This isn't some obscure legal issue - any person, company or institution that could be involved in a legal dispute should have some understanding of e-discovery.

And, finally, why would my insights matter?

I am an attorney with an undergraduate degree in computer science, so I have studied both the law and the technology of e-discovery. I spent many years in the legal department of a large investment bank, building and then managing a substantial in-house electronic discovery group. I keep myself up-to-date on how the world of e-discovery is growing and changing, and I'd like to share my thoughts and opinions.

My intention in writing this blog is to try to make electronic discovery easier to understand. This is not legal advice, of course, but simply my attempt to make e-discovery more accessable to more people.

Again, welcome to "Discovering Electronic Discovery", and I hope you enjoy your stay.