The e-discovery landscape is littered with a murky alphabet soup that can sometimes trip up even the most experienced legal professionals. Acronyms such as EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model), ESI (electronically stored information), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) represent precise practices and functions of the e-discovery process. Yet many have reached the point that the original concepts behind them have grown convoluted or generally misunderstood.
That is the case with ECA (early case assessment) and EDA (early data assessment). The resulting confusion can jeopardize your litigation strategy. ECA is a structured process for learning about a case and developing a litigation strategy at the start of a matter. Unfortunately over the last few years the concept of ECA has been stretched to the point that its value has diminished in the eyes of many litigators. Adding to the confusion, the e-discovery software industry often uses the term interchangeably with EDA, in actuality a related but distinct process for understanding a client’s ESI.
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