EDD Consultant

Answer 1

The legal world is filled with an enormous amount of electronic documents. Most law firms don’t have sophisticate electronic discovery technology available in their office which can make a difference in a case, especially when the opposing lawyer presents a ton of electronic documents that often confuse as well as hide the smoking gun that could change the outcome of the case. An Electronic Discovery Document consultant can sort through opposing electronic documents and discovery whether the opposing counsel is playing by the book.

An EDD consultant will use state-of-the-art electronic discovery methods to analyze documents and uncover issues like fragmented documents, scrambled documents, deliberate duplication of documents, and burying hot documents in a pile of duplicated documents. EDD consultants can also identify documents that have been fabricated and they can even find spoliation or traces of documents that have been destroyed.

Not all lawyers are corrupt or intentionally produce false documents in order to win a case. Most attorneys play by the rules, but there’s evidence that electronic document tampering happens more frequently than anyone thought possible. EDD consultants are trained to catch this misconduct even when it’s done out of ignorance or recklessness. Whether electronic document tampering is intentional or done mistakenly it can be difficult to defend against unless a lawyer has hired an outside EDD consultant that can act in a non-legal capacity in order get to the truth.

EDD consulting has become a two billion dollar industry and is expected to double in the next three years because it is creating havoc with trial strategies, litigation budgets, and risk management decisions. It is actually changing the structure of traditional support staff jobs in corporate law departments as well as in law firms.

Qualified EDD consultants in Midwestern and Southern firms earn over $125,000 a year and some make over $150,000 a year. EDD consultants in New York and Los Angeles easily earn $150,000 to $300,000 a year, plus they receive bonuses. Review managers are the highest paid EDD consultants. Consultants with experience, a solid reputation, and work for a top consulting firm in a large metropolitan can earn a half a million dollars or more doing EDD work.