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Legal Tech: Approaches and Considerations for Discovery Cost Minimization and Recovery

By John Koss and Daniel Pelc
August 01, 2018

Discussions surrounding how to address invoicing (or not) the costs of litigation to clients can be, to say the least, a delicate and complicated subject for many outside lawyers and law firms. The costs of litigation increase with ever more potentially responsive data, litigation technology options, and a truly global reach in the context of much litigation. In response, law firms must continue to consider viable approaches to broaching discussions surrounding the recovery of these costs both within the firm and, more importantly, with law firm clients.

As most practitioners are acutely aware, the most significant source of litigation spending in the modern world are costs associated with e-discovery. More specifically, the identification, preservation, collection, processing, hosting, review, and production of documents during pre-trial discovery.

In their course of daily business, corporations are amassing millions and millions of documents. Obviously, the majority of these documents are duplicative and irrelevant to a particular dispute. Nevertheless, a corporation can, at any moment, be pressured to capture these documents and potentially review and produce them in a given dispute or investigation. The strategy behind a proper e-discovery response is to utilize technology to differentiate between the relevant and irrelevant and duplicative data.

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