Right Discovery Staff Writer
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) diagrams how ESI travels from information governance through presentation. CEO Kevin M. Clark routinely points teams to this scaffold before debates about tooling or vendor RFPs—because shared language prevents expensive misunderstandings.
- Information governance: Policies and controls that keep ESI trustworthy before disputes arise.
- Identification: Locate systems, custodians, and data classes that may matter.
- Preservation: Suspend routine destruction once litigation or investigation is reasonably anticipated.
- Collection: Acquire ESI with defensible methods and transparent chain of custody.
- Processing: Normalize formats, deduplicate, and prepare content for review.
- Review: Assess responsiveness, privilege, confidentiality, and issues.
- Analysis: Analytics, clustering, and narrative development across the corpus.
- Production: Deliver according to court rules, contracts, and proportionality.
- Presentation: Trial and hearing-ready exhibits that connect facts to argument.
Following the model keeps teams aligned on integrity, proportionality, and documentation—whether a regulator, judge, or board asks what happened and why.
Topics: EDRM, eDiscovery, Right Discovery, information governance