Deloitte survey reveals government officials confident about e-discovery skills.

• Position: E-DISCOVERY

Deloitte's ninth annual survey of e-discovery in government agencies has found that government professionals are becoming more comfortable with discovery of mobile devices and more confident about their e-discovery skills.

For example, the 2015 survey found that 54% of the 149 respondents had collected and preserved mobile data. Last year, only 26% said they had done so. Twenty-eight percent of government officials, meanwhile, said that they had requested mobile data from opposing counsel in a case.

Deloitte's "Benchmarking Study of Electronic Discovery Practices for Government Agencies" also analyzed the growing trend of predictive coding and mobile device discovery in government cases and found that it isn't going to stop anytime soon.

The survey revealed that 27% of respondents used predictive coding in at least one case in 2015, up from 23% in 2014 and just 6% in 2012.

Chris May, the leader of Deloitte's government discovery sector, told Legaltech News that the increase in mobile discovery is related to the awareness of the amount of data stored on mobile devices, as well as the rise of BYOD in the workplace.

While the survey found a rise in the...