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Electronic Discovery Year in Review: Where We've Been, Where We are Going

By Courtney Ingraffia Barton
March 28, 2006

Last year was explosive for the electronic discovery industry. From enormous jury verdicts to proposed changes in the federal rules, the legal and business landscape for e-discovery has never been more in flux. While more e-discovery vendors have entered the market this year, mergers have also consolidated the industry like never before. Meanwhile, case law continues to grow to include not just the very well publicized sanctions cases, but also opinions that have honed in on some of the technical challenges of e-discovery.

2005 Electronic Discovery Legal Developments

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