Nice & Clear for a basic knowledge that everybody should be aware of.
I'm sometimes involved (as an IT) in international lawsuits during what attorneys call 'investigation', which can most probably be related to e-Discovery in your presentation.
We receive f.e. Gigabytes of e-documents of all kinds / all formats / all languages / all kinds of attachments and we must index them on their textual context to make investigation easier. Additional services are provided like : flagging documents already treated (to avoid double work), recording the "who and when", computing the amount of work by language (to plan resources knowing foreign languages), restoring the chronology, avoiding duplicates (mails sent to a distribution list) ...

Alain LOYENS aloyens@ask.be Belgium/Europe