The e-discovery industry has grown over the past 10 years to a multibillion-dollar business, with hundreds of vendors of products and services. Yet despite admirable efforts of such groups as the Electronic Discovery Reference Model Project and the Sedona Conference, the e-discovery industry has yet to develop truly “standard” practices.
Some of the chaos may be due to the pace of change in procedure rules, case law and technology. But to a great extent, the lack of standard practices represents a failure of the key parties in e-discovery matters to organize themselves.
