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B Y M A R K W O O D S
LEGAL
LITIGATION
IN THE AGE
OF DATA
PROLIFERATION
Ediscovery Strategies for Success
N
ot long ago, discovery
in litigation was not
as diverse as we see
today. It included emails,
physical documents,
essential computer files, and phone
records. Today, discovery within litigation
encompasses these sources and data
from communication apps like Slack,
Teams, Zoom, social media, texts,
cloud storage, accounting and financial
systems, document management
systems, and more. As the body of
potentially discoverable data balloons
in volume and diversity, firms must sift
through an ever-growing collection
of extraneous and duplicative data to
present the most straightforward and
compelling case. Yet, the facts and legal
elements of these cases—and how those
facts are presented—have not radically
changed.
Recently, legal industry analyst Ari
Kaplan, principal of Ari Kaplan Advisors,
researched to understand how firms are
handling the influx of discovery data.
Kaplan interviewed litigation support
directors about their caseloads, data
volumes, and strategies. While 93%
