The Masters Conference buzzed through the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., on October 13 and 14, supporting a rich cast of e-discovery specialists, pundits and exhibitors. Typically, the Masters has a laser focus on e-discovery, but this year the conference expanded its coverage to address risk management and security issues that often accompany litigation matters involving electronically stored information as well as EDD.

Like LegalTech New York 2009, vendors at the Masters Conference seemed to emphasize a general lean towards the “left side” of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model. Exhibitors chatted up their preprocessing tools and new features to help customers better manage the endless streams of digital data.