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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. 

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