Trend: IT transferring the Burden of E-Discovery back to Legal Departments
May 5th, 2008 Filed Under E-discovery, IT
In recent years since E-discovery has become a major concern of most corporate legal departments, a significant portion of the burden of producing relevant documents have rested on the IT departments of such corporations. IT professionals are required to retroactively search through back up tapes, locate relevant information, and organize it in a user-friendly environment so that such information can be reviewed and produced by attorneys to the opposing side. Now IT departments are being more proactive and are anticipating future litigation by culling such data beforehand. This eliminates disruptions to the corporation and decreases litigation costs at the same time. By making such data more easily accessible, the burden then becomes reviewing and classifying such data instead of on the retrieval of the data. This is then a legal question of relevance and non-relevance as oppose to a question involving information technology. It pays to plan ahead.
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