Discovery involves the preservation, identification, collection, and production of potentially relevant, nonprivileged information. The discovery process is not complex, but it does require strategy as each organization has its own unique data landscape and each case requires careful and thorough analysis and control of the scope of a party’s discovery obligations.

A decade ago, email systems were the primary source of discoverable electronically stored information (ESI). EData attorneys, in conjunction with technologists and IT professionals, have developed streamlined and repeatable processes for preserving, identifying and collecting potentially relevant emails. Because of this progress, email collections are now ubiquitous and usually straightforward, at least for larger organizations with internal discovery capabilities.