Comments on: LTNY 2010 Part 2 – ECA Everywhere http://ediscoveryjournal.com/2010/02/ltny-2010-part-2-%e2%80%93-eca-everywhere/ Your one-stop source for eDiscovery Tue, 08 May 2012 19:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: ArtSCC http://ediscoveryjournal.com/2010/02/ltny-2010-part-2-%e2%80%93-eca-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-10 ArtSCC Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:11:26 +0000 http://ediscoveryjournal.com/?p=5733#comment-10 Vendors like to append labels to their products to indicate to customers into which of the many e-discovery cubby holes their products fit. The trouble is they don't apply labels (like ECA) consistently. To me, the major problem with the ECA label is that it attempts to append a technological solution to the early evaluation of electronic discovery issues when, in large measure, the earliest assessment is a purely human endeavor, comprised of interviews and probing questions by the managing lawyers. Technology comes into play only after key systems, custodians and issues have been identified. To call it 'early' case assessment is a real misnomer. I would prefer to call that genre of software tools Electronic Data Inventory Assessment or something similar. (If vendors start showing up with EDIA products, you heard it here first.) Vendors like to append labels to their products to indicate to customers into which of the many e-discovery cubby holes their products fit. The trouble is they don’t apply labels (like ECA) consistently. To me, the major problem with the ECA label is that it attempts to append a technological solution to the early evaluation of electronic discovery issues when, in large measure, the earliest assessment is a purely human endeavor, comprised of interviews and probing questions by the managing lawyers. Technology comes into play only after key systems, custodians and issues have been identified. To call it ‘early’ case assessment is a real misnomer. I would prefer to call that genre of software tools Electronic Data Inventory Assessment or something similar.

(If vendors start showing up with EDIA products, you heard it here first.)

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