According to Gabe’s Guide to Ediscovery, the job market for ediscovery professionals is about to heat up.  Does this mean I need to demand a raise or look for a new job?

I wonder how the candidates are going to differentiate themselves from one another – experience is important, but so is the ability to use the right tools for the job.  Legal services and litigation support vendors will be able to leverage this ediscovery surge into more lucrative contracts that have dried up over the past couple of years.

If the rise in work for ediscovery professionals continues, this may also lead to some traction on ediscovery certification efforts.  Considering the relative size and projected growth of the industry, it’s as good a time as any to start some sort of standardization for professionals.  Right now there are many diverse skill sets that ediscovery professionals have, but in order to move upward (or even laterally) within the industry there needs to be some sort of quality control over the workforce.

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