Contract attorney e-discovery primer: just what is ESI, information and digital data?

As more and more attorneys, law firms, corporations and vendors join the Posse List and exisiting Posse List members move into the nuts and bolts of the tech side of e-discovery, we thought we’d update our e-discovery “primer” posts.  In an e-discovery review, the collections process and its attendant considerations are paramount.  But just what, exactly, are you “collecting” and just what is ESI, information and data?

To get you started, Rob Robinson (Senior Director of Worldwide Marketing for Applied Discovery)  has a great Scribd post titled “Considering ESI, Information, and Data?”   It is a very authoritative review of the whole collection process with some excellent reference notes on further sources.  You can access the post by clicking here.   As we have mentioned before, Rob is pretty much the doyen of all-things-ediscovery and you can follow him on Twitter by clicking here or via his web site by clicking here.

Another great reference we recommend is The Sedona Conference E-Discovery & Digital Information Management Glossary which you can access here.