E-Discovery - What's That?!?

Anyone stumbling upon my blog will most likely already know what E-Discovery is, but here is the Reader’s Digest version for those that may not know…

E-Discovery is the process of taking mass amounts Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and making it available in a common format for lawyers, paralegals and other litigation support specialist that wish to work with the data. By using software we can “convert” just about every file type on a person’s computer (also known as a custodian) to a common format so users of the software can then run text searches, skin-tone analysis, predictive models and a whole slew of other processes that I will cover in this blog. I’m not a lawyer (and I won’t be playing on in this blog), but all the user is really doing is gaining a better understanding of how good or bad the case may be for them – allowing them to make educated decisions on how (or if) to pursue the case. This is very over-simplified, so here is more information.

I have ventured down the path of writing the software the does the heavy lifting. My focus (at least for now) will be in the following three areas:

• Processing – the act of getting data in a standard format described above
• Early Case Assessment – client facing software allowing quick culling and review of a case or project
• Cloud-based everything! – This is what sets me apart from my competition. Everything will be designed to run in the cloud. Crazy, I know…