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Reducing legal costs with inhouse eDiscovery


In times of recession organisations and individuals are more likely to resort to legal processes to resolve disputes. A proactive approach to email archiving and electronic discovery can save businesses tens of thousands of pounds in legal costs, fines, and settlements.

People and organisations will resort to the courts to resolve disputes faster during a recession than in more prosperous times. Extended periods of negotiation are not an option when cash is scarce,  mouths need feeding, and bills settling. One of the most expensive aspects of litigation is the discovery process whereby a business must render up all relevant documentation for examination. In practice this can involve thousands or even millions of emails, which must be recovered either from an archive on an Enterprise Content Management system, or from the individual mail files themselves.


Email archiving and eDiscovery software have enabled businesses to significantly reduce the cost of legal discovery by bringing more of the discovery process inhouse. According to analysts at Gartner Group, many businesses find that they are enjoying a return on their investment within three to six months. This borne out by comments from the legal profession that legal discovery exercises that would have taken six months and cost £500,000 or more five years ago, cost less than £10,000 today, and are completed in days. Even with returns in this order, many organisations wait until they are subject to a legal discovery order before investing in a solution. This approach is unlikely to deliver a satisfactory outcome for anyone. With litigation from staff, consumers, suppliers, and regulators on the rise businesses need an integrated strategy for content management e-discovery that mitigates risk and reduces operational costs from the outset.

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