Blockchain: the future of eDiscovery?
I have been in the litigation support space for my entire career. I have been fortunate enough to be at the cutting and bleeding edges of innovation and technology for much of that time. I've ridden the legal tech wave since email was new and we switched from typewriters and carbon paper for correspondence. I've been immersed in supporting lawyers and clients in navigating changes in legal research (text to CD-ROM to online). As our industry has become more sophisticated, I have seen us wrestle with meta data, deduplication, predictive coding and TAR, audio and social media discovery, and the challenges of mobile collection. There's been Bloomberg parcing projects and struggles with structured data. We've learned about deNisting and what a MIME type was. Let's not forget (how could we?) the more recent issues with privacy rules in the US and the EU. Just when we had a handle on things, we fine-tuned our focus and started talking about ...