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Litigation and Discovery

What Is the EDRM?

A widely used framework that maps the stages of eDiscovery: information governance, identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, production and presentation.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

The EDRM gives buyers and vendors a shared vocabulary. When comparing eDiscovery tools, it helps to ask which stages each one covers and where data has to move between systems.

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Related Terms

eDiscovery
Collecting, reviewing and producing electronically stored information, such as email, chat and documents, in litigation, investigations and regulatory requests.
Legal hold
An instruction to preserve information that may be relevant to a reasonably anticipated or pending legal matter, suspending normal deletion.
Processing (eDiscovery)
Converting collected data into a reviewable form: extracting text and metadata, removing duplicates, expanding containers and indexing for search.
Production (eDiscovery)
Delivering reviewed, responsive documents to the other side or a regulator in an agreed format.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.