The big story from the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) 2016 e-discovery industry report was that worldwide, the e-discovery market had grown to a $10 billion industry. But there’s one nugget in there that was perhaps overlooked—by 2019, IDC predicted that Europe would comprise 23 percent of the total market.
For certain, the U.K. is a large portion of that rosy European outlook, especially as U.K. courts are increasingly turning to technology-assisted review (TAR) . But the U.K. certainly isn’t the only growing European market. Europe’s strongest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund , is Germany, a country that has ties with a number of multinational corporations that do ample business in the United States and elsewhere.
