The e-discovery process has to be handled with utmost care, and when done wrong, it could be full of major legal and logistical headaches for corporate lawyers. According to data gathered by e-discovery software company Exterro Inc., the biggest challenge facing in-house legal and IT concerning e-discovery is locating potentially responsive data in the first place.

Some 35 percent of the 140 professionals from across a variety of industries surveyed believe that tracking down the electronically stored information that matters is the hardest part of the whole process, outpacing other challenges such as tracking legal holds and managing multiple e-discovery projects all at once.

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