In-House eDiscovery Solutions: Breaking the Myths

Outsourcing eDiscovery solutions has been common for corporations over the last few years, although it can be an expensive proposition, as lawyers are including more and more electronic documents in discovery requests. Without an in-house eDiscovery solution, corporations, fearing sanctions, often over collect and send the unprocessed data for outside culling, review and processing. This methodology leaves the first step document culling to the outside agency, which is very expensive. Outside service providers typically charge thousands of dollars a gigabyte to cull, process, de-duplicate and filter documents to determine what is relevant and what is not. Then the culled-down data is then hosted for review by reviewers. Not only are e Discovery costs extremely high with this approach, but it also significantly delays the review process. Furthermore, case assessment only happens at the tail end of the process after significant expenses has already been incurred, which is counterproductive. With such a large sunk culling cost in the case, litigation strategic options are significantly reduced. What is needed is a new approach to rapidly and cost effectively determine case assessment earlier in the process.

In below in Figure 1, the outline of the typical costs associated with two legal matters involving about 1 terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) and 200 GB of collected data. 

As seen in the Figure 1, there is still a need to review one million and two hundred thousand documents respectively resulting in total eDiscovery costs of $1.2M and $240k respectively. The question is how to reduce the cost of the traditional outsourced model and maintain corporate information security while delivering all relevant documents needed to deliver the right e Discovery solution?

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