Electronic discovery, or eDiscovery, is the process of identifying, collecting, preserving, processing, reviewing, analyzing, and producing electronically stored information that may be relevant to a legal matter.
Electronically stored information can include:
- Emails
- Text messages
- Documents
- Spreadsheets
- Databases
- PDFs
- Presentations
- Photographs
- Videos
- Audio
- Social-media content
- Mobile-device data
- Cloud data
- Collaboration-platform data
- Internet records
- Metadata
- Computer files
- Business records
eDiscovery can be used in litigation, investigations, regulatory matters, arbitrations, government proceedings, internal investigations, and other legal disputes.