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Searching For What Matters

By Compiled by Michael Lear-Olimpi

The volume of e-data subject to discovery continues to grow ' seemingly exponentially. As courts, parties and litigators become more conscious of the importance of this data and more adept at ensuring its availability during litigation and regulatory matters, managing the data has become a more significant challenge for the producing and requesting parties. Clearly, the mandate is to discover better ways to find the “stuff that matters” in the most expeditious and cost-effective manner.

These days, that's more easily done than it has been in even the recent past. Achieving that goal requires modern litigators to assess how to best view, search, categorize and produce electronic data. Fortunately, evolving technology is allowing litigation teams to evaluate a variety of tools to help form the best strategy for digging through mounds of digital documents accurately and efficiently.

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