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Technology Tips for Reducing EDD Review Costs

The net result is that electronic data discovery (EDD) has increased the cost of litigation significantly. The largest component of EDD costs ' by far ' is attorney review. Analysts estimate that corporations spend between $10 billion and $15 billion per year on attorney review, and many corporate legal departments report that attorney review of electronic data now represents the single largest line item on their budgets.

22 minute read February 26, 2007 at 01:40 PM
By
William E. Mooz, Jr.
Technology Tips for Reducing EDD Review Costs

Litigation in the Internet Age involves document reviews of a magnitude not seen before. Leveraging advances in information technology, the world created more documents last year than in all the years combined since Gutenberg invented the printing press.

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