Try, for a moment, to imagine litigating or negotiating a dispute without discovery. Instead of facts or evidence, you’d just have an argument. And while that might make for better theater and be more fun for litigators, it wouldn’t be much of a way to obtain justice.
Discovery—which, today, means e-discovery—is the way we marshal the facts of a dispute so we can reach a resolution. E-discovery is how we learn what happened, who did what, and who’s to blame for whatever mess we now find ourselves in. The key to successful e-discovery, then, is finding information that’s relevant and dispositive, wherever it may be.
