Getting Started With E-Discovery

When implemented correctly, the best e-discovery systems can save a pile of cash and time, and can become real productivity boosters.

The news is filled with reports about companies buried in legal fees as a result of the presence or absence of a key document. The process of using various automated systems to track documents is called electronic discovery, and many e-discovery solutions are available—often with six-figure implementations attached. Unfortunately, only a small number of companies have implemented such systems fully.

A blog post by Forrester analyst Brian Hill says, “Few companies report having a holistic approach to e-discovery. Just 23 percent have an end-to-end approach to gather and filter data.”

So what’s the best way to get started before that big suit hits, and what can you implement quickly that will be a good foundation?

Curtis Rawlings, assistant CIO of DeKalb County, Ga., is using Symantec’s Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator and calculates that the county has saved more than $75,000 annually as a result. “The county receives about four requests a month for various records, and, in the past, each one used to take an average of 33 hours of staff time to do the research and respond because many e-mails were only available on backup tapes,” he says. “Now, a request can be filled in an hour, as a result of having all the various e-mails and files cataloged and organized by the software and online.”

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Source: baselinemag.com
By: David Strom