Expert eDiscovery Services
Approach eDiscovery challenges with full EDRM workflow support and on-demand experts.
What is eDiscovery?
Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) is the process of identifying and examining electronic documents related to a specific matter. eDiscovery is a key part of legal cases, internal investigations, and compliance. But without proper support, eDiscovery requests can be time-consuming and costly.
Bluesource eDiscovery experts work to optimize workflows, implement eDiscovery solutions, and manage the entire eDiscovery process. Teams across any organization can benefit from the support of Bluesource and leading eDiscovery technology.
Understanding EDRM Workflow
Bluesource has solutions for every step of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) workflow.
EDRM released EDRM 2.0 in September 2026. The updates reflect the best practices in eDiscovery. Notably, “Analysis” is now shown as a constant across the entire workflow. “Disposition” is a new step, representing the “systematic, defensible process to retain, delete, transfer, or return data after use.”
The new model groups Identification, Preservation, Collection, and Processing together under Data Acquisition. These stages are no longer shown as separate steps, but as interconnected pieces that set the foundation for eDiscovery.
Data Acquisition
Locate potential data sources, determine the project scope, breadth and depth. Use defensible data retention policies to ensure data is protected against alteration or destruction. Process data into usable formats and organization.
Review
Evaluate data for relevance, content, and context, and analyze patterns.
Production
Deliver data to additional team members or requesters in appropriate formats and mechanisms.
presentation
Elicit further information, validate facts, or persuade an audience in a deposition, hearing, trial, etc.
Disposition
Retain, delete, or transfer data based on defensible and standardized policies.
ANALYSIS
Constant assessment of data and documents throughout the entire EDRM workflow. Analysis combines human insight and technology to recognize patterns and relevance.
eDiscovery Challenges
Partner with Bluesource and reduce common eDiscovery challenges faced by IT, legal, compliance, HR, FOIA, and security teams.
- Data Volume: The amount of data and the variety of data (email, chats, video, audio, attachments)
- Compliance: Keeping up with increasing regulations like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA
- Cost: High costs for manual review, large datasets, and outsourcing data preparation
- Chain of Custody: Ensuring data is defensible in court
- Time: Identifying relevant content with tight deadlines
eDiscovery Outside the Courtroom
Optimize eDiscovery for your entire organization, not just the legal team.
Internal Investigations
HR and compliance teams use eDiscovery tools during employee misconduct and company policy violation investigations.
Data Security
Security teams use eDiscovery methods to analyze data security and data breaches.
Compliance & Regulations
eDiscovery tools help to quickly identify and retrieve documents in response to regulatory requests.
Information Requests
eDiscovery solutions speed up the process of fulfilling Freedom of Information Act requests and general public records requests.
