When you think of e-discovery, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Likely, it’s the Fortune 500 company digging through mountains of emails, embroiled in commercial litigation of some sort. But while that’s the common connection, e-discovery goes far beyond corporate law.
“Customarily, e-discovery has always been thought of as the domain of complex commercial civil litigation, and it hasn’t been much of an issue in criminal matters,” said David Horrigan, e-discovery counsel and legal content director at kCura. “But with the explosion of digital data and the proliferation of it everywhere, it really is more important now to criminal matters than it ever has been.”
