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The e-Discovery Balancing Act

By Dean Gonsowski
January 29, 2009

There are two unstoppable trends in e-discovery. First, corporate executives are becoming acutely aware that they are ultimately responsible for their organization's e-discovery results, which in some instances is a rude awakening since they can no longer claim ignorance or try to put the blame for any missteps on their law firms or litigation-support providers. Second, to lower costs and gain more control of the e-discovery process, enterprises are bringing certain steps of e-discovery in-house. As a result of these two trends, progressive corporations are starting to treat e-discovery as any other standard corporate business process: repeatable, defensible and measurable.

This new dynamic raises an obvious question: What portions of the e-discovery process are best suited to be “in-sourced,” and how do IT professionals within an enterprise work with their partners to ensure effective collaboration/communication?

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