Over the course of April and May, Digital Reef hosted a three part webinar series on “eDiscovery Best Practices” led by industry experts. The webinars addressed many eDiscovery issues and gave insight into how to avoid eDiscovery disasters, while also providing a variety of ways to implement new eDiscovery strategies.  The webinar series did so by fostering many lively discussions and providing all participants with relatable real world examples.

The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) (www.edrm.net) is the de facto industry standard methodology for guiding enterprise legal and IT organizations required to support managing, collecting, reviewing, and producing evidence from electronically stored information (ESI).  However, for EDRM Information Management (www.edrm.net/projects/imrm) , a cornerstone best practice and critical step in becoming more proactive in eDiscovery, is often missing and not well connected across legal and IT organizations to drive support for eDiscovery and Litigation readiness, especially, when compared to preservation, processing, reviewing, analysis, and production. 

Enterprise Search is an amazing technology that enables a single person to find the single document most relevant to their specific goal. When deployed properly it helps companies greatly improve the productivity and effectiveness of knowledge workers. I spent years in that market and saw this first hand.

New e-discovery rules signed into law this past April,bring Oklahoma procedures into alignment with existing federal practices. 

FRCP rules set eDiscovery requirements