Technology is essential to managing the preservation, collection, filtering, review and production of electronically stored information in litigation. Technology created the massive amount of data that must be narrowed down to the universe that must be produced in litigation, and technology must be used to handle those tasks cost-effectively and defensibly.

As a lawyer, you have a duty to your clients to understand the benefits and risks of relevant technology, to leverage appropriate technology to perform your work as efficiently as possible, and to keep their data secure.

But you're a lawyer—not a technologist. How are you supposed to know which data processing software accurately handles GroupWise emails? How can you know that the latest version of your review database has a glitch that will make your customized review template useless?