Corporate Counsel Question Accountability in E-Discovery

Accountability and quantification are as significant hurdles as cost when corporate counsel shop for e-discovery software, a new report concludes.

Enterprise Strategy Group's latest research, "E-Discovery Market Trends: A View From the Legal Department," released Wednesday, includes results from 48 counsel at companies of at least 500 employees. Of those, 86 percent said e-discovery expertise is important when they hire outside counsel and 64 percent requested alternative fee arrangements, the report states.

Accountability, according to 71 percent of responding companies, focuses on sampling to track document review accuracy in individual cases. Comparing results to other cases was an example cited by 50 percent of companies, and comparing to other reviews was cited by 43 percent. Only 29 percent use software to measure individual reviewer productivity.

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Source: law.com
By: Evan Koblentz