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Litigation

Oct. 19, 2012

eDiscovery driving litigation costs

The case law in recent years illustrates that many attorneys defer blindly to technology without attempting to understand its value in controlling the cost of litigation. By Lael D. Andara of Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley PC


By Lael D. Andara


Life before computers. Think back to 20 or 30 years ago, the search for discoverable information resembled an archeological dig. Attorneys would carefully brush away the irrelevant information to uncover each fragment of information scattered throughout multiple banker boxes, with the hope of putting together a complete skeleton of the evidence. Today, the search for discoverable information resembles something more akin to a game of Battleship ...

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