E-Discovery Preparation and Permanence for Document Review

Document review has become a major profit service for law firms. This gives an inlet to new technologies that allow smaller law firms to take clients they would never normally be able to handle. Additionally, eDiscovery takes the responsibility out of the domain of industry titans instead of making them enlist a large pool of high cost attorneys. In turn this has created scalability that is leveling the playing field in litigation services. Litigation services are crucial to consult even before a lawsuit or any type of litigation takes place. Third party electronic discovery support allows small and mid-sized firms to keep rates low and quality high in order to compete with national firms. This is largely achieved through pooling associates when needed and providing IT systems to keep up with demand.

For this system to work smoothly for boutique competitors these services help to implement; preparation tactics, document reduction policy, Data mapping assistance, internal investigation, and frequency Data management needs. Third parties also help smaller firms by exploiting their ability to use review software and hire review teams as needed, without carrying infrastructure and head count costs year round.

Third parties use SAAS or service as a solution for optimal price scaling on the fly so that production of evidence and overall cost control stay within reasonable boundaries. Working with third party litigation services is also important post litigation. Working with your provider you can easily identify pain points in order to avoid similar occurrences in the future. Lastly Document review is done by legal reviewers and forensic analysts. Making sure that your company aligns with the decisions made by these key players ensures a continuous feedback loop and results in better preparation for any type of litigation activity in terms of quality and validity.

All of these factors point to the fact that the eDiscovery isn’t going anywhere, Instead it is rapidly expanding. Data mapping assistance, internal investigation procedures, and technology migration provide robust business development opportunities downstream for legal work. As the usage of electronically stored information (ESI) increases, inevitably so will the mid-sized firms assigned to handle the tasks that are an externality of this data. If A firm adopts a third party litigation service and educates staff on the risks of their electronically stored information they are much less likely to end up spending superfluous amounts on the costs listed above than if the litigation was never outsourced in the first place.