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Unlike previous years, when terms such as ‘analytics’ and ‘information governance’ practically jumped out of the cloud, this year’s terms were more generic, such as data and legal. For more specific advice, we turned to some of the industry’s top thinkers.
Hugh Logue, an analyst with the U.K. market research firm Outsell Inc., said he noticed a focus on simplifying e-Discovery tools and widening their use case.
“I think it’s about making e-Discovery accessible to the average attorney instead of specialist researchers and on more topics outside of litigation,” Logue said in an email.
As a term of art, e-Discovery has been evolving so that it now applies to situations unrelated to the classic definition. Now, it is not uncommon to hear about e-discovery in the context of an internal investigation or that takes place during the due diligence process before a merger, and people are even discussing e-Discovery tools that corporate counsel will want to use just to find information within their own company’s records.
Read the complete article at Is Legal Tech Going Through an Identity Crisis?