Editor’s Note: This is the first in a four-part series.

In last year’s article series, we examined the e-discovery attorney’s two-decades long transformation into today’s e-data attorney. We noted that the e-data attorney brings to her role a formable array of tools, including process design, tested workflows, business planning and technological mastery, assembled over time through hard work and experience. We considered the creative ways in which she deploys these tools to help her clients navigate the complex and ever-shifting demands of e-discovery, contracts and regulatory compliance. In this article, the first installment in our 2021 series, we discuss opportunities for the e-data attorney to apply her unique skillset toward mastery of the art of internal and government investigations.