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Another Kind Of Room With A View

By Christy Burke
March 01, 2006

Ramping up for document-review is a challenging prospect, requiring a firm to react quickly and aggressively, depending on the requirements of the case. And the rising demand for attorneys to review vast stores of documents generated by click-of-a-button, lightning-fast contemporary e-commerce is also giving rise to law firms engaging in more electronically grounded commerce themselves as they advise and assist clients in meeting requirements of routine document review, storage and disposal as part of regular business, and the specifics of electronic discovery.

Even the essential mode of this sort of e-commerce can produce more commerce ' in the billable hours and personnel needed to tackle the job. Considering that the timeline for reviews can be extremely long, requiring attorneys to spend months sifting through information or very short, at times requiring firms to use contract attorneys to scale up to several times their original staffs' size to meet deadlines and, either way, technology is facilitating the commerce of business, and of law. Input from the field underscores this expanding channel of law business.

“When very large document-review projects come up, it places terrific strain on the firm's infrastructure,” says Nick Gaglio, an associate at Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, a New York-based firm that concentrates on anti-trust and intellectual-property litigation. “For some document-intensive review projects, there is enormous pressure from the client to finish the review quickly.”

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