Group releases first eDiscovery certification examination

Contributed by Roumiana Deltcheva (Monday, November 01, 2010) | Category : eDiscovery

The Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists recently released the industry's first independent eDiscovery certification examination.

Certification candidates are tested on cost controls, litigation and preservation holds, budgeting, ethics, project management, technology, data culling, document reviews and cross-border discovery. More than 50 eDiscovery, psychometric and certification experts devoted over 1,000 hours to create the exam, which is legally defensible and is available at 519 ACEDS-Kryterion Testing Centers worldwide.

"ACEDS' certification establishes verifiable and reliable standards of eDiscovery competence that is critically important to businesses, law firms and government agencies,” William Hamilton, chairman of the ACEDS Advisory Board, said.

The certification exam figures to benefit both employers and job seekers by establishing verifiable and reliable standards of eDiscovery competence, according to the ACEDS.

The association cites the increase of electronically stored information as the driving factor for better eDiscovery education. More than half of respondents to a recent survey have experienced a growth of 25 to 50 percent in the amount of legally relevant electronically stored information in the past five years.