The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association
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best practices Controlling E-Discovery Costs in a Big Data World by Brian Ingram of LexisNexis Legal IT professionals are all too aware The World of Big Data that the task of managing large mountains of data has always been a defining characteristic of our industry. Now that we've had to layer on the explosion of digital and social media content, we've got a whole new set of challenges in front of us. The attorneys we support are looking to us for new approaches to help them make sense of all this data. In particular, lawyers are taking greater notice of the legal, ethical and technological issues around the new frontier for information technology: big data. IT professionals are on the leading edge of this new battleground, developing innovative approaches to information governance and implementing sophisticated technology systems to harness the power of this data avalanche. One promising application for big data analysis is in electronic discovery, where fast, high-performing data analytics can substantially reduce the time and cost of preparing for a case. In 14 Peer to Peer