Digital White Papers

I L T A W H I T E P A P E R | I N F O R M A T I O N G O V E R N E N C E 68 G one are the days when corporate law departments were off limits, operating outside of budgets because litigation was considered too capricious and unpredictable to manage as a traditional business process. Today's climate is quite the contrary. The law department is expected to run just as well as every other high-performing business unit within the organization: on budget, on time, and with measurable results. Performance demands control, and sophisticated in-house counsel are actively exercising control over the largest component of the litigation spend – electronic discovery. That means assuming direct responsibility, embracing new technolo, exploring new ways to use existing technolo, and implementing consistent best practices. Below are five practical strategies for catapulting the law department from oversight of diverse and inefficient eDiscovery silos managed by numerous outside counsel and vendors to effective direct control over eDiscovery processes and spend. Begin by transitioning appropriate eDiscovery data and processes to the cloud to take advantage of inherent efficiencies and scalability. Cloud operations then will facilitate data and process centralization and minimization. Once data is consolidated, efficient, repeatable eDiscovery processes can be developed and streamlined. Those processes should, in every situation, incorporate machine learning to the fullest extent possible, to minimize review costs. And, finally, business intelligence across the entire eDiscovery B Y T H O M A S C . G R I C K S , I I I 5 Strategies for Effective Control and Oversight of eDiscovery Spend

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