By Debbie Reynolds and Daryl Gardner ( August 30, 2018, 3:40 PM EDT) -- E-discovery is not easy. Over the past few decades, the rise of the internet, the use of electronic data for business and growing options of new communications technologies have significantly changed the nature of evidence used in legal matters. This data evolution has made legal evidence handling far more complicated than it had been in the old days of paper boxes and office file cabinet collections. Managing electronic evidence during the preservation and collection phases of any legal case can be fraught with technological challenges that may cause headaches, at best, or create devastating downstream e-discovery ramifications like censure, adverse inferences and monetary sanctions, at worst. In fact, in a 2018 annual federal judges survey, 67 percent of judges said that the stage where most e-discovery mistakes occur is in the phases before e-discovery data processing, which are the preservation and collection phases.[1]...