India lags in e-discovery.

• Position: E-DISCOVERY - Brief article

Finding e-discovery services in India is extremely difficult, to say the least. According to a recent CJNews India blog posting, only a handful or more of law firms provide e-discovery services in India, and only one or two cyber law firms do. The deficit is due largely to a lack of the necessary techno-legal experience in the law firms and in law enforcement. India's law enforcement and revenue authorities have failed to take advantage of e-discovery and cyber forensics in their investigations, despite the fact that cyber laws were broken in several notable cases.

One high-profile example noted in the news posting was the Target Corp. breach, which exposed the personal information of up to 70 million customers. The company is facing litigation threats from around the world, including from India, for failing to comply with techno-legal requirements of applicable...