With continuous unprecedented growth in electronically stored information in the past few years, and, with this information showing no signs of letting up in the coming years, companies are struggling with information risk from new resources like cloud computing, web 2.0 tools, etc.

1. How eDiscovery Helps in Litigation Support
With continuous unprecedented growth in electronically stored information in the past few years, and, with this
information showing no signs of letting up in the coming years, companies are struggling with information risk from new
resources like cloud computing, web 2.0 tools, etc. These technologies present eDiscovery challenges that will keep in-
house legal experts and other law firms working at full capacity.
This rapid growth of eDiscovery in recent years has caused many organizations to develop standards and practices with
the goal of harmonizing eDiscovery across organizations and law firms. With data being kept in offsite cloud storage,
litigation support experts are concerned about how fast this data can be accessed. Is data stored in the cloud completely
searchable?
No lawyer today can afford to ignore eDiscovery and needs to stay abreast of eDiscovery and developments in this field.
This has become all the more necessary due to a December 2006 amendment to the FRCP, wherein digital data is
implicated irrespective of the case, the court or rising costs. Increasing litigation presents significant e-discovery
challenges for corporations, government agencies, and law firms.
A Paradigm Shift for Law Firms to the eDiscovery Platform
With the number of litigations increasing, organizations are finding it difficult to address these challenges and at the
same time control costs. The traditional tools being used are time consuming and lack the transparency and defensibility
needed for litigation, increasing the risk for organizations of losing the case.
This and the court sanctions have made organizations wake up to the needs of eDiscovery. They have moved to
standardizing on an eDiscovery platform to provide a cost effective, competitive and defensible process for eDiscovery
to their clients. Thus the market dynamics for litigation services are changing due to the inception of new technology
coupled with demands from corporate for more cost effective and timeline specific discovery.
A single eDiscovery software solution can provide quality assurance, identification, collection, pre-processing filtering,
processing, analysis, review, redaction, and production, in a single, integrated product. This eliminates the need for
import and export of data between multiple litigation software tools, reduces manual errors and lowers the overall cost
and duration of electronic data discovery. This will support organizations’ investments and ensure that their electronic
discovery program is repeatable and defensible.
In the coming years eDiscovery and litigation support support will change in important and exciting ways. Companies are
seeking to lower costs while maintaining adequate risk management. To meet these goals, organizations and law firms
need to adopt an end-to-end eDiscovery solution that will solve the most pressing challenges of litigation today
streamline the entire e-discovery lifecycle with a single, easy-to-use application and make the electronic data discovery
process cost-effective and defensible.
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