Why It Matters
eDiscovery is one of the oldest and largest legal tech markets, and one of the first to use machine learning at scale. Costs are driven mostly by data volume and review time, which is why analytics and AI review matter so much here.
Related Terms
- ESI (electronically stored information)
- Any information created, stored or used in digital form that may be relevant in litigation: email, documents, chat messages, databases, audio, video and more.
- EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model)
- A widely used framework that maps the stages of eDiscovery: information governance, identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, production and presentation.
- TAR (technology-assisted review)
- Using machine learning to rank or classify documents for review in eDiscovery, so people review the most likely relevant documents first or not at all.
- Legal hold
- An instruction to preserve information that may be relevant to a reasonably anticipated or pending legal matter, suspending normal deletion.
General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.