Extract from Casey Sullivan’s article “For Harness IP, Everlaw Powers a Fast New World”
The discovery process is the backbone of legal practice today. For the vast majority of disputes, discovery determines the outcome – and that outcome is either a beneficial settlement, backed by key evidence, or not. Yet for many law firms, handling the ever-growing needs of electronic discovery, with its booming document volumes, ever-expanding data types, and unforgiving deadlines, presents an incredible challenge.
Should the needs of modern ediscovery outgrow the capabilities of a firm’s tools, the impacts can be daunting.
“We were often behind, we didn’t have the technology that we should have, and we were moving to the cloud, but we did not know who we were going to select,” recalls Penny Jones-Magee, Litigation Support Specialist for Harness IP, an elite international firm dedicated exclusively to intellectual property law. The team needed software that would be able to handle today’s data and empower their attorneys to access it quickly and confidently. Penny recently sat down with Everlaw to discuss her firm’s approach to ediscovery and the impact of choosing a modern platform.
Harness IP was not alone in realizing its existing platform had fallen behind. Regardless of specialty, all firms feel the pressure created by rapidly evolving data formats and tighter budgets. The volume of discoverable data is exploding, and when an ediscovery platform can’t handle the load, attorneys and paralegals are forced to fill the gaps.
