Feb 08

Anatomy of an E-Discovery Project

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“In Right-Thinking E-Discovery Project Management,” I asserted that lawyers are not project managers. In fact, lawyers would find project management alien to their legal education and experience, which begs the question: What does an e-discovery project look like from the practical, logistical point of view?
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model is a good place to frame a picture and develop the structure of an e-discovery project. The EDRM has been memorialized in numerous sales presentations and committed to memory in the minds of many litigation support professionals. Therefore, it is an excellent structure for understanding the essential steps required in an e-discovery project.
Note, however, that the EDRM is a high-level view of the e-discovery process and does not address the practical logistics necessary for getting through each box, or categorical task, of the EDRM. That’s why the EDRM group developed the Project Management Framework, billed as a “logical structure intended to provide a simplified, yet comprehensive representation of a complex process that is independent of the tools and methods used in any particular situation.” See Figure 1.
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