According to Science Daily, 90 percent of the data in the world has been created in just the last two years. That is a sobering statistic for corporations trying to control the cost and risk of their litigation discovery. Amid this data explosion, however, there is good news. There are multiple ways to bring order to chaos. The question is, which path to take?

Consensus on what works best

There is some emerging consensus at a high level about how to deal effectively with the “electronic discovery” challenge. Most repeat litigants would agree that e-discovery nirvana involves setting up a repeatable, standardized set of processes from data identification and preservation through processing, review and analysis to production and presentation.