Socha Consulting Activities

Socha Consulting LLC
President

Formed in 2003 by George Socha, Socha Consulting LLC provides electronic discovery consulting and expert services.For corporate, governmental and law firm consumers, help craft and implement effective electronic discovery strategies, identify and select appropriate electronic discovery services and software providers, and manage the electronic discovery process.For e-discovery providers, offer insights into market trends; evaluate existing offerings, determine shortcomings and recommend improvements; prepare strategies for increasing the profile of their offerings; and assist with the development of new services, software, and strategies.

For investors, offer insights into market conditions and trends, assist with evaluation of providers and their offerings in connection with potential investment opportunities, and assist with due diligence efforts.

Serve as a testifying or consulting expert witness on issues relating to electronic discovery and automated litigation support.

A typical engagement as a testifying expert witness may involve conducting an investigation into alleged failure of a particular aspect of the e-discovery process, preparation of an expert report based on the results of the investigation, and delivery of testimony at a deposition and in a hearing.

Topics have included adequacy of ESI preservation efforts, consequences of modifying or destroying ESI, adequacy of ESI processing, adequacy of selected forms of production, and cost issues.

A typical engagement as a consulting expert may involve assistance with structuring e-discovery processes specifically for that matter, oversight of e-discovery processes, or cost management.

Co-Founder

Launched in May 2005 by George Socha and Tom Gelbmann, EDRM was created to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the e-discovery market.Expanding on the base defined with the initial Reference Model, EDRM now consists of nine projects including the Information Governance Reference Model project.Since its inception, EDRM participants have included more than 230 organizations, including 150 service and software providers, 57 law firms, three industry groups and 22 corporations.

For more information, go to edrm.net

Co-Founder

Founded in 2011 by George Socha and Tom Gelbmann and based on the Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey (2003 – 2010), Apersee is the premier system for selecting e-discovery providers and their offerings.

Apersee puts the e-discovery selection process in consumers’ hands, letting them create their own customized rankings of e-discovery providers and offerings, based on their unique needs.

Apersee replaces both the Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey and the Socha Consulting vendor pages.

For more information, go to apersee.com