One of the major points made in Ray Kurzweil’s magnum opus, “The Singularity is Near: WhenHumans Transcend Biology,” is that the rate of change is accelerating at an exponential rate. While his point relates to the fields of computing, genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, the same can be said about the exploding field of e-discovery. EDD presents the legal profession with a panoply of new risks which must be addressed by bench and bar alike.

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