Extract from Petra Pasternak’s article “HP Tackles Unpredictable Litigation Costs with User-Friendly Technology”
Palo Alto-based HP Inc. – an innovator in personal computing, 3D printing, and gaming – has 58,000 employees across 170 countries and more than $50 billion in annual revenue.
At that scale, when litigation arises, discovery budgets and workflows can run amok. Challenges like these spurred HP’s legal team to search for a new approach to its litigation and investigation workflows.
The key was to get ahead of spiraling litigation costs, HP’s Associate General Counsel Thane Vallette said, fueled in no small part by the explosion of data that virtually every in-house legal team is facing today.
“Managing cases to an accurate budget is becoming more and more paramount,” Vallette said. “We really need to give financial transparency to our colleagues throughout the business.”
The technology his in-house team uses had to be a part of that solution.
