E-discovery vendors will be happy to hear the metrics released Thursday by The Cowen Group, a New York-based headhunter and research consultancy, which show a strong spurt of growth in electronic data discovery workload at law firms. Writes managing partner David Cowen, in the executive summary: “2012 has been a year of progress and promise for e-discovery professionals.” The survey, of 88 law firm and corporate law department professionals, found that 70 percent of law firms reported an increase in workload for their litigation support and e-discovery departments. That figure, says Cowen, is a sharp rise from the 2Q 2009 report, where only 42 percent of firms reported increases. Corporate law departments followed suit, with 77 percent of respondents also reporting workload spikes.
Bolstering the prediction, 55 percent of corporate and 62 percent of firm respondents said they “anticipate outsourcing a significant amount of e-discovery to third-party providers (with some organizations expected to do both).” The firms expect to grow capacity either by adding head count or purchasing new (or updating) technology, he notes.
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