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How to Reduce Litigation Costs In the EDRM Continuum
The amount of data a company generates grows with each passing day. It is important to develop strategies to reduce the amount of data subject to discovery obligations while staying current with legal and technology trends. A strong partnership with a vendor and law firm using sophisticated data review and collection techniques is essential to navigating the discovery minefield in a cost-effective way that is also defensible and fully documented.
The EDRM Continuum
It is no secret that discovery accounts for a large percentage of litigation costs. This is largely based on the volume of documents that need to be reviewed by a team of attorneys before making document productions to opposing counsel. The ratio of pages discovered to pages entered as exhibits is as high as 1000/1. See http://tinyurl.com/m9mnu8a. This means that the vast majority of documents companies pay to have reviewed never see the light of day after the initial review and production.
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