It’s the final week of the 2026 eDiscovery Today State of the Industry Report Survey (again sponsored by EDRM)! Last chance to participate – and get the report!

As always, this survey is designed to poll eDiscovery professionals throughout the industry and get their experiences on a variety of topics designed to inform and educate the industry on these trends overall.

The 2026 eDiscovery Today State of the Industry Report survey consists of twelve questions (plus one sponsor bonus question) – yet, it should still literally take a couple of minutes to complete. In addition to a couple of demographics questions, there are questions related to the following topics (one new question in bold red):

• Impact of LLM and Gen AI Technologies on eDiscovery Offerings in 2026
• eDiscovery/Litigation Use Cases to Which Your Organization Applies LLM/Gen AI Technologies
• Cases Involving Use of LLM/Gen AI Technologies
• Cases Involving Use of Predictive Coding Technologies and Approaches
• Cases Involving Discovery from Mobile Devices
• Cases Involving Discovery from Collaboration Apps
• Biggest Business-Related Trend in eDiscovery in 2026
• Whether or Not Hyperlinked Files Should Be Produced with Emails
• Biggest eDiscovery Related Trends for 2026
• The eDiscovery Challenge That Not Enough People Are Talking About

In addition to one new question, selected options for other questions have been added, changed or removed, based on feedback from previous surveys. Let’s see what happens!

In addition, EDRM (who has graciously agreed to sponsor and promote the survey again) has asked a bonus question to gather information from industry professionals: What would you most like to see from EDRM in 2026?

The results will be published in the 2026 State of the Industry Report targeted for the end of January.  However, that’s not all that will be included in the report!  It will also include observations from selected thought leaders about these topics as well!  So, it should once again be a unique report combining a statistical representation of the industry with expert observations!

We need your help! Click here to take the survey – if you do, you’ll get a FREE copy of the report once it’s available!

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So, what do you think?  In addition, to sharing any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic, please take the survey here!

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