EIGHT YEARS AGO, GEORGE SOCHA
HELPED CREATE THE FIRST “MAP”
FOR THE E-DISCOVERY PROCESS.
THAT MODEL “PROVIDED A COMMON
FRAMEWORK” FOR THE INDUSTRY, SAYS
ONE VETERAN LITIGATOR.
means competition. But it also means
that Dawson had it right. “What the
vendors saw,” says Moure, “was that the
model worked.”
GEORGE SOCHA
SOCHA CONSULTING
TOM GELBMANN
GELBMANN & ASSOCIATES
NINE YEARS AGO, Socha and Gelbmann
surveyed the e-discovery landscape and
discovered a mess. Every practitioner,
every vendor seemed to have a different
definition of what e-discovery meant. “It
was a real issue,” says Gelbmann, a for-
mer law firm CIO. With no standards,
and no common framework that people
could agree on, it would be near impos-
sible to hit on best practices.
