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Connecting Litigation Support to the Litigation Process
wouldn’t be engaged until well after litigation had started. LSPs were typically brought in simply to help organize discovery documents, usually after
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he role of Litigation Support Professionals (LSPs) continues to evolve and expand in most law firms and corporate legal departments across the country. In the past, an LSP
those documents were collected, reviewed, culled and produced.
As technology has evolved in the litigation process,
it’s being applied in earlier stages of the case. As a result, the role of the LSP has expanded. Firms now rely upon them from the beginning, even when litigation is simply anticipated, to provide needed assistance in the identification and preservation of documents.
