Peer to Peer Magazine

49 WWW.ILTANET.ORG Suddenly, a lightning bolt of blue and red arrived, seemingly out of nowhere. In an instant, the blur of color transformed into a caped man clenching her in his arms and calmly reassuring her, "Easy miss, I've got you." Still in shock, Lois Lane, looked into Superman's eyes and said, "You've got me? Who's got you?" We proffer the same question to those counting on the technology evolution to be the silver bullet for inevitable obstacles in e-discovery. You wake up tomorrow and it's 2025; you've got interconnected devices with blazing-fast analytics and artificial intelligence…but who's got them? The answer: e-discovery project managers (PMs). We've Got This, Right? Today we find ourselves in the adolescence of the e-discovery coming-of-age story. Seasoned e-discovery experts have sliced up the e-discovery pie into preservation, collection, processing and hosting, review and analysis, production and presentation. Commonly referred to as the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), each phase of the process requires its own fleet of experts. Documents and records are identified and preserved by teams of compliance professionals with degrees in library science. Collections are performed by certified forensic examiners with write-blockers, preprogrammed, self-collecting hard drive kits and portable toolboxes that clone mobile devices. Unstructured data sets are transformed from useless containers into organized tables by analysts specializing in applications that make sense of thousands of new file formats, all the while developing workarounds for the endless stream of new and existing exceptions. On the analytics front, data visualization and organization are continuously evolving to understand data sets beer. Even the science of search has turned into an art, performed by those who can deliver results Evolution of the E-Discovery Project Manager FEATURES The bones in her hands ached as her grip around the seat belt deteriorated. She was in a free fall. A guttural scream echoed off the city buildings as she watched floors fly by like a movie in fast-forward. with expertise and confidence in their respective platforms. Statisticians, logicians and linguists have emerged from the shadows of academia to give the document review team a leg up on the competition by shining a light on the utilization of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Finally, the glue binding these otherwise disparate areas of expertise together: e-discovery project managers. They are part technologist, part teacher, part personal assistant, part data scientist, part calf herder, part translator, part salesperson, part accountant, part architect, part graphic designer — all Supermen (or Superwomen). E-Discovery and the IoT If we are only in the adolescent phase of e-discovery, where are we heading in adulthood? What does the future hold for e-discovery PMs? As our reliance on technology increases, we will need a specialized team of project managers to oversee e-discovery.

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