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Chaotic Case-by-Case Project Management

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ” ' Peter Singer

The legal industry should pay attention to Singer's words of caution. Across the nation, there exists a relatively untested notion that the only approach to e-discovery is case-by-case ' that every unique case requires an equally unique approach to discovery. While this phenomenon is a natural component of any industry seeking standardization, the unfortunate byproduct can be seen when organizations incur great costs to marry pre-existing on-premise solutions with whatever contracted-for solution is required to react to the case that came down the pipe today.

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