Great Interview on E-Discovery
Dennis Kennedy, Tom Mighell and Evan Schaeffer have a group interview on e-discovery. In the personal injury field, it has been slower to reach us than the commercial litigation field. Evan lays out the basics:
Basic electronic discovery-e.g., a set of written discovery and a deposition to discover the scope of an opposing party's electronic information-should be done in almost every case in which the opposing party creates and stores relevant information electronically. These days, wouldn't that describe most litigated cases?
I think that Evan’s right. It’ getting to the point where we can’t ignore it any longer. More and more files are being kept digitally. If you’re not doing e-discovery, what are you missing out on?
It was a great round-table. Since I don't practice law, I just have a hard time believing the legal sector is just not odopting this. Every competitive business I support uses technology too advance. Everyone faced the challenge of storage solutions and cost was the issue, but they overcame the problem because they had too survive to
fight another day. Fundamentally, when firms address the issue "internally" and get away from "bank boxes", they will begin too not only see the benefit, firms can understand how and what data is stored.
Please continue with your support of educating your fellow eagles. Contrary to belief there a few VARs and Resellers that understand your experiences. We have too live with competitors that abuse a market. Why do think training is limited? There is only so many hours in a day and lawyers (law is a business)have too find the time. Competition demands it. Every day we come in contact with clients that just don't want too move ahead. Trust me your competitor is. You may not see the result today but down the road you will.
