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Clients Increasingly Bringing e-Discovery In-House

By Eric Lipman

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A post on the U.K.-based InfoRiskAwareness blog might be setting off alarm bells among BigLaw firms, both here and across the pond. Tim Bovy, CEO of an outfit called d2Ops, writes that we should expect to see more corporations doing their own document search and review, rather than simply letting their outside counsel run wild among the company's files as they see fit. Why? Well, this shouldn't come as a surprise: While most businesses operate under the notion that increased efficiencies bring increased profits, the litigation departments of most law firms turn this logic on its head, i.e. the more inefficient they are the more they can bill and, therefore, the more money they will make. What's the British word for "Duh?" Bovy includes a good number of links and soundbite quotes in his piece, "Why Organisations Are Bringing eDiscovery In House: It?s Time to Call a Spade a Spade ? Part One." He also cites an example from a Denver University Law Review article, in which the authors talk about an experiment they did to compare a "traditional" document review to higher tech, more automated, less "lawyered" alternatives. The authors actually designed several methods for re-reviewing 1.6 million documents...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).