Technology has transformed the legal discovery process over the past decade, whether a complex case involving the Department of Justice and/or other regulatory agencies or a traditional civil action between two private parties. In the past, discovery was purely reactive and matter driven. However, according to David Bayer, Director of Product and Solutions Marketing for Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), today’s realities are quite different. Discovery—and particular e-Discovery—has become a proactive, critical business process “predicated on systematic governance policies and workflow.”
The modern corporate enterprise must deal with multiple (and often dozens of) matters that share common corporate data. These will often involve tens of millions of documents, Terabytes of data, huge databases, and multiple legal teams both across matters and even working on one case. The level of complexity requires corporate Legal Departments to implement a coherent approach with at least three fundamental goals. First, they must achieve cost predictability by moving beyond antiquated point solutions and engagements with multiple vendors. Second, they need to understand that (i) the manner in which their data is treated (e.g., storage, location, redundancy, destruction) and (ii) their search procedures (e.g., predictive coding) require that their chosen solutions be defensible under the reasonableness standards of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence. And third, they must simplify workflow through early case assessment and by favoring a single vendor solution that can meet the corporation’s end-to-end needs across all matters with a unified legal repository.
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Source: Forbes
By: Ben Kerschberg
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