Each year in e-discovery brings predictable lessons—lessons on how to be more efficient, how to handle emerging challenges presented by newer data types, and how to handle exponential growth in data volume—and most of us are familiar with the drill. While those lessons remain important, last year pushed us to learn significantly more lessons beyond those. In this two-part series, we’ll first revisit the key e-discovery lessons we learned in 2020 and then explore how we will incorporate these into our work in 2021.

We have the benefit of working in an Am Law 50 firm, where we support a diverse portfolio of work, have well-established relationships with innovative clients, retain significant institutional knowledge, and possess autonomy with creative pricing and support solutions—all of which positioned us to respond thoughtfully and effectively to the challenges presented in 2020.