Back in 2006, when Cliff Dutton served as chief technical editor for the creation of the first Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), the workflow he helped establish saw most of its action and attention focused in on the middle data handling and analysis components.

But over the last decade Dutton, now serving as chief innovation officer for Epiq, has seen the EDRM increasingly extended towards its extremities. “We believe that workflow has served the industry well, and we believe it’ll work well as we move both left and right,” he noted.