While you might expect the production of a button-down shirt to be outsourced to Guadalajara, most lawyers would not expect their caseloads to be shipped overseas. Should lawyers worry about outsourcing? If you answer “yes,” you are probably a litigator dealing with electronic data discovery and the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

According to the August Socha/Gelbmann survey, 2007 commercial expenditures on EDD topped $2.7 billion, up 43 percent in one year. They are expected to hit $4.6 billion by 2010.

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