Electronic data discovery is not just raising havoc with trial strategies, risk management decisions, litigation budgets and document retention policies, it’s also uprooting traditional support staff job descriptions in law firms, corporate law departments and vendor shops.
With EDD now a $2 billion industry that is expected to double by next year, according to the 2007 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey, there’s a lot of chaos as organizations try to select and use the sophisticated new technology that is necessary to conduct discovery in almost any litigation. Many trial lawyers and paralegals simply do not understand technology (and don’t want to), while many IT professionals do not understand the nuances of law.
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