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Selecting an e-Discovery Provider That Meets Your Needs

By Greg Osinoff
April 29, 2004

The potential size of today's data sets, the ease with which electronic files can be altered and the complexity of these projects in general makes selecting the right e-discovery provider a high-stakes game.

Here's the kind of negative exposure that counsel risk by outsourcing an electronic-discovery (e-discovery) project to the wrong service provider:

  • Missed deadlines;
  • Out-of-control costs;
  • Incomplete or inaccurate work product (or both);
  • The wrong solution for the job at hand; and
  • Spoliation and adverse-inference claims. 

The Need to Know, And to Check

This year has seen a continuing proliferation of companies claiming to offer state-of-the-art e-discovery services in response to rising volume and variety of e-discovery needs. It is dangerous to assume that all these companies were created, and have remained, equal. Companies come to the bargaining and working table with vastly different levels of experience and capability, from those possessing significant knowledge and experience to those that have simply recognized a growing potential market on which they want to cash in.

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