The Low Down on eDiscovery in Germany: Where the Growth’s at and the Cases in Question
Managing Director, Michael Becker chats about e-Discovery’s German growth, key differences in European discovery and more.
Preview: The big story from the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) 2016 e-discovery industry report was that worldwide, the ediscovery market had grown to a $10 billion industry. But there’s one nugget in there that was perhaps overlooked—by 2019, IDC predicted that Europe would comprise 23 percent of the total market. For certain, the U.K. is a large portion of that rosy European outlook, especially as U.K. courts are increasingly turning to technology-assisted review (TAR). But the U.K. certainly isn’t the only growing European market. Europe’s strongest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund, is Germany, a country that has ties with a number of multinational corporations that do ample business in the United States and elsewhere. To learn more about how e-discovery is growing in Germany, LTN spoke with Michael Becker. Previously an attorney with Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati in Vienna and Bucharest, and Debevoise & Plimpton in Frankfurt, he now works as a managing director at Consilio’s Frankfurt office. He notes that although e-discovery in the country has been evident since the record-setting Siemens Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case, the market has reached new heights in recent years.
This article originally appeared on LegaltechNews.com.