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E-Discovery Industry Standards

e-Discovery Knowledge Center: Industry Standards

Leadership in the Electronic Discovery Industry Fios continues a tradition of active participation in industry standards organizations, such as the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and The Sedona Conference®. We participate in these and other industry groups, as well as bring news and information about industry standards to the greater E-Discovery community through a variety of whitepapers, articles, webcasts, and other resources.


The Electronic Discovery Reference Model

The EDRM - was created to develop guidelines and standards for e-discovery consumers and providers, EDRM has helped e-discovery consumers and providers reduce the cost, time and manual work associated with e-discovery.

In its on-going effort to provide guidelines and standards, EDRM continues to update and expand the original model with six projects for the 2008-2009 year.

  • EDRM Evergreen Project
  • EDRM XLM Project
  • EDRM Metrics Project
  • EDRM Model Code of Conduct
  • EDRM Search
  • ERRM Data Set


  • The Sedona Conference®

    Fios is a premier sponsor of The Sedona Conference Working Group Series. The Sedona Conference exists to allow leading jurists, lawyers, experts, academics and others, at the cutting edge of issues in the area of antitrust law, complex litigation, and intellectual property rights, to come together - in conferences and mini-think tanks (Working Groups) - and engage in true dialogue, not debate, all in an effort to move the law forward in a reasoned and just way.

    The Sedona Conference Working Group Series, launched in 2002, was designed as a bridge between the Regular Season Conferencea sn a pure think tank model. The Sedona Conference currently has 7 Working Groups (click here for details).

  • WG1 Electronic Document Retention & Production
  • WG2: Protective Orders, Confidentiality & Public Access
  • WG 3: The Role of Economics in Antitrust
  • WG 4: the Intersection of the Antitrust Laws and Patent Law
  • WG5: The Markman Process and Claim Construction
  • WG 6: Intl. Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure
  • WG7: Sedona Canada
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    The Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation

    This past July, The Sedona Conference launched a coordinated effort to promote cooperation by all parties to the e-discovery process. This proclamation outlines The Sedona Conference’s vision for achieving the goal of a “just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action.” Read the full proclamation >



    Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey

    The Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey is an independent survey conducted by consultants, George Socha and Tom Gelbmann. The annual survey examines the demands for and consumption of commercial e-discovery services and software. Fios was named one of the top 5 electronic discovery providers in this year's survey.



    Safe Harbor

    Fios is safe harbor certified by the United States Department of Commerce. The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October of 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-European Union nations that do not meet the European “adequacy” standard for privacy protection. While the United States and the European Union share the goal of enhancing privacy protection for their citizens, the United States takes a different approach to privacy from that taken by the European Union.

    In order to bridge these different privacy approaches and provide a streamlined means for U.S. organizations to comply with the Directive, the U.S. Department of Commerce in consultation with the European Commission developed a "Safe Harbor" framework and this website to provide the information an organization should need to evaluate – and then join – the Safe Harbor



    National Software Reference Library

    Fios' technology infrastructure supports the thousands of recognized file types and signatures identified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

    The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ), federal, state, and local law enforcement, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to promote efficient and effective use of computer technology in the investigation of crimes involving computers.

    The NRSL collects software from various sources and incorporates file profiles computed from this software into a Reference Data Set (RDS) of information. The RDS is a collection of digital signatures of known, traceable software applications. There are application hash values in the hash set which may be considered malicious, i.e. steganography tools and hacking scripts.

    Recent e-Discovery Industry Standards Webcasts

    Case Law Update

    Summer 2010
    This update explores recent court decisions related to e-discovery, including the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Quon; the impact these cases may have and are already having; and tactics and strategies organizations should consider to help control their e-discovery costs and risks.

    View this update now >

    Upcoming Webcasts

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    Relativity® Powered by Fios – What the "Bleep" Is It?

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    The Basics on Handling Email Attachments in e-Discovery

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