E-discovery professionals use technology to facilitate legal discovery and to manage electronic data. In a legal sense, discovery takes place when each party in a court case is permitted to discover information that's in the possession of the other. In the past, this meant boxes of paper records. While there still may be paper involved, today's discovery also involves electronic data. E-discovery professionals review and manage the electronic records involved in the discovery process. eDiscovery  professionals use technology to facilitate the legal discovery process when it involves electronic documents.