A worldwide plan to develop unified e-discovery processes is delayed, after an election at the International Standards Organization last week returned mixed results.
Under the plan, details of which have not yet been determined, e-discovery software companies and service providers would use documented and auditable methods when performing client work, project co-editor and U.S. representative to the ISO committee Eric Hibbard said last week. If the effort were to succeed, then customers and judges could focus on law instead of pondering technical techniques when selecting products or litigating cases, explained Hibbard, who is an engineer at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Hitachi Data Systems.
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