eDiscovery Daily Blog

• January 30, 2017

For many people (including me), today is a travel day for LegalTech New York (LTNY), er, LegalWeek.  On a day like today, it helps me to have an easy topic to write about.  So, thanks to InsideLegal for a great LegalTech observation!

In InsideLegal’s 2017 Legaltech NY Word Cloud (along with 7 year flashback), written by JoAnna Forshee, the site has generated a word cloud from the LTNY agenda to give an overview of what will be covered in the sessions, which visually displays the words/themes included in the event’s agenda of sessions.  That word cloud is above.

Over the years, I’ve observed that eDiscovery is a front and center theme for the show and based on the word cloud (and my own observations), this year is no exception.  “eDiscovery” (along with “legal” and “data”) are the most popular words in the agenda.  Probably even less surprising is that “Sponsored By” is probably the biggest term after those three (along with “technology”) – so “Sponsored By” is on a par with the term “technology” at a technology show.  Yeah, that figures.

Actually, InsideLegal has been doing this every year since 2011 (hey, that’s the first year eDiscovery Daily started covering the show!) and the post also provides the word clouds for the previous 6 years as well.  In each of those years (except for the first one in 2011), the term “eDiscovery” is at least as big (if not bigger) than any other term in the word cloud.  It’s interesting to see other terms that are big in certain years (such as Information Governance in 2014 and 2015).  Only in 2011 is “eDiscovery” not the top term (in that year the biggest terms were “legal” and “technology” (go figure!), as well as “data”.

So, it certainly appears that, once again, eDiscovery will take center stage at the conference this year.  Starting tomorrow, we will point out sessions related to eDiscovery (and Information Governance), so you can plan on which sessions to attend.

So, what do you think?  Are you attending LegalTech this week?  If not, please feel free to join us!  And, as always, please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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