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Early and Routine Data Management Will Lower E-Discovery Costs

April 10, 2014

There are fundamental differences between litigation support and data management, and if the latter is done intelligently and well, the former becomes become less expensive and more effective.

Traditionally, vendors and law firms have been rewarded with increased revenue by focusing on processing, hosting and review of ever-expanding volumes of data. Per-gigabyte costs for these operations have come down, but the total volume of data associated with each new matter increases at a rate that outpaces the savings achieved via reduced unit pricing.

CLOs should ask vendors how they can help reduce overall spending. Reducing unit prices doesn’t work if data and document volumes continue to increase exponentially. Large chunks of non-responsive data must be eliminated before spending begins on processing, long term hosting storage and attorney review.

Data management takes a step back from the familiar activities associated with the e-discovery cycle as they apply to individual matters, and instead it looks at what’s happening with data before it ever becomes the subject of a discovery request.

Organizations that typically have files that are large in terms of gigabytes but fewer in number may seek vendors offering lower per-document costs. Organizations with relatively few cases per year involving very large numbers of documents – many of which are likely non-responsive – may cultivate relationships with vendors that can cull and then address document review costs via reduction in rates and/or increases in throughput.

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