Electronic Discovery in a Nutshell

After spending some time on the vendor floor of LA LegalTech, I realized I couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting at least five competing Electronic Discovery vendors.  There is a reason for all of this money being spent in the sector, of course, because if you attend a seminar on electronic discovery you will be scared shXXless.  Talking to a few vendors, I was reminded of this recent post on Engadget about the lovely cycle that keeps some of these companies in business:

Usher’s posting is sure to set off a wave of panic among nervous execs who will in turn hassle their IT managers, who will in turn hire high-priced consultants to come in and upgrade their network security, which will in turn be broken by bored teenagers in Russia, which will be reported on by us and other blogs, which will then be repeated by the mainstream media in a tone of nervous excitement, setting off a wave of panic among nervous execs who will…