So, you’ve been asked to reduce operational costs and to lower the company’s risk profile—a request that can feel paradoxical.
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The True Cost of Manual Ediscovery: Part One
In many cases (legal and otherwise), the DIY approach is often the most cost-effective way of accomplishing a task. There’s a reason why YouTube tutorials are so popular! However, there comes a point when the DIY ethos becomes a hindrance, rather than a help. For...
Sign O’ the Times: Pop Music and Spoliation Allegations
Spoliation is a word that strikes fear into the hearts of corporate legal professionals.
Interested in Conducting Document Review In-House? Start Here.
Modern, cloud-based ediscovery software enables corporate legal departments to bring routine document review in-house, requiring minimal training and staff resources while offering huge cost savings and security benefits. Here are five recommendations for getting started.
Best Practice Defensible Internal Investigations
Internal investigations can be daunting because the matters are often highly sensitive, time is critical, and there is no room for error. Successful investigations are thorough, initiated quickly, completed promptly, and evaluated fairly. In general, you should...
2019 Corporate Ediscovery Benchmark Report
The 2019 report demonstrated that corporate ediscovery is hitting a transition point. As we unpacked the responses from the nearly 250 participants, we saw the emergence of three distinct types of teams handling corporate ediscovery.
Recognizing a Trigger Event
Last week, we started a new series in In-House Insights to explore best practices for developing and implementing a sound preservation plan for your organization. Today, we dive into the key elements of an effective…
Find the facts that matter through culling, processing, and review
Everyone knows that review is the costliest stage of ediscovery — but many companies still aren’t taking advantage of the technology that could help them reduce data volumes, organize data for efficient review, and complete review in record time. Is your organization...
Are you getting the best results from your preservation and collection efforts?
The advantages associated with automated legal holds are clear: faster issuance of holds, better acknowledgment rates, and more efficient management of holds — which all contribute to fewer sanctions for spoliation. Yet a surprising 43 percent of companies still use...
Measuring what matters: Adopting metrics in ediscovery
Metrics, also known as key performance indicators or KPIs, are the key to continuous process improvement, not to mention cost savings and budget control, in ediscovery. There’s nothing mysterious about measuring and analyzing data, but most organizations haven’t...
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