Who are Electronic Discovery Rockstars?

Oct 16th, 2008 | By | Category: E-Discovery

Who would you consider “e-discovery rockstars?” That is, who are titans in the e-discovery industry? These people may not be CEOs—they probably aren’t—but their role as spokesperson, blogger, commentator, or legal authority has given them a special place in world of electronic discovery.

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I deleted the remainder of this post and the poll because of a persuasive and gracious comment (see below) from Craig Ball, one of the people originally named in the post as a rockstar. When creating the poll, I failed to consider that

1. the poll failed to include a number of individuals with worthy contributions to e-discovery law, e-discovery best practices, and the e-discovery community in general; and

2. the poll compared individuals to each other, which could result in hard feelings.

The purpose of the poll was to give those who are new to e-discovery some new sources they hadn’t considered, new blogs to follow, and new written works to discover. But I fear that that goal could be over-shadowed by problems. For this reason, the poll has been removed.

In the future, I may publish a list of e-discovery authorities that doesn’t have the problem of comparing rockstar to rockstar. The goal of the list will be to help newcomers to the e-discovery community.

UPDATE: There is a growing list of e-discovery rockstars in the forum.

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  1. Thanks for including me as a candidate, but at the risk of appearing ungrateful, I wish you’d take the poll down. What possible benefit can flow from ranking the folks listed beyond hurt feelings and bruised egos? It’s not as if anyone has to choose who to read or heed.

    Plus, there are so many who make enormous contributions who aren’t listed. What about George Socha, Lee Rosenthal, Ken Withers, Ron Hedges, John Facciola, Tom Allman, Shira Scheindlin, Mike Arkfeld–I could go on and on and on. There are a lot of great people in the band. No one has to hog the spotlight.

    If folks read my stuff and feel it worth their time, that’s all the rock star status I want.

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