Extract from Lindsay Lund’s article “Ediscovery for Corporate Counsel: Challenges, Strategies, and Tactics”
As data volumes explode and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, corporate counsel face mounting pressure to keep pace. Data collected for discovery, especially corporate ediscovery, is expanding dramatically, in both volume and type – documents may be shared across multiple data collaboration tools, including Gmail, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack, and Dropbox, and often includes multiple versions of collaborative docs.
A Rand study estimated that U.S. civil cases typically contain around 130 gigabytes of data, or roughly 6.5 million pages of information. This places significant demands on corporate legal teams, which face increasing pressure to manage growing volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) while staying abreast of current technology and complying with data privacy regulations.
Keeping ediscovery efficient and cost-effective can be a massive headache, with 69% of general counsels globally facing moderate to significant cost pressure.
In this guide, we will explore the challenges of the corporate ediscovery landscape and outline the key strategies to overcome them, including the use of appropriate corporate ediscovery software and services.
