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PEER TO PEER: THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF ILTA | SUMMER 2018
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Small Firms Moving to Cloud for Electronic Discovery
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Small Firms
Moving to Cloud for
Electronic Discovery
As part of our ongoing effort to hear the voice of small and medium firms, the
Litigation Support Content Coordinating Team will be publishing a series of
blogs discussing the movement to cloud for electronic discovery. To further
understand their perspective, we interviewed the small firm members on their
experience and published the high-level insights below.
The interviewees include Chris Hunt of
Sugarman Rogers, John Sawyer of Partridge, Snow
& Hahn LLP, and Aaron Crocke of Harrang Long
Gary Rudnick P.C. We discussed their journey
moving to cloud for electronic discovery, the key
factors that got them there and the challenges they
faced. All interviewees had a slightly different set
of challenges, but most centered around finding the
right service provider and educating their user base.
Moving to cloud provides them with a greater sense
of security and awareness of their data footprint,
and changes the dynamic of electronic discovery, as
well as their role, at the firm.
The factors driving the selection of a new
solution were service, support, and soware. User
experience and ease of use were important in the
selection of soware and, being in small firms,
support to augment internal resources also played
a big role in determining the provider to meet their
needs. In all scenarios, firms introduced a billing
system for data processing or storage, and each
had key stakeholders to get them the buy-in. The
iterative approaches taken by these firms over
the years is reflective of the paradigm shi from
in-house soware to cloud-based solutions for
electronic discovery.
ILTA invites to
you listen to the
full audio files for
each interviewee,
online. Each
interview lasts
about 30 minutes.
ILTA thanks Ricky
Brooman for
facilitating these
great discussions
and thanks
Aaron Crockett,
Christopher Hunt,
and John Sawyer
for their engaging
interviews!