Comments on: Can E-Discovery Really Be That Expensive? http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/2007/05/21/can-e-discovery-really-be-that-expensive/ thoughts about the evolution of e-discovery Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:10:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Malay http://www.clearwellsystems.com/e-discovery-blog/2007/05/21/can-e-discovery-really-be-that-expensive/#comment-8 Malay Thu, 24 May 2007 06:16:00 +0000 http://staging.clearwellsystems.com/wordpress/?p=14#comment-8 There is an interesting <a HREF="http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9200894" REL="nofollow"> article</a> on this topic in the lastest issue of the Economist.<br/><br/><i>Mr Wheeler ranks e-discovery as “the single most significant change to the legal system” since he left law school in 1969. Richard Baer, the top in-house lawyer for Qwest, a telecoms firm, will not go quite so far, but he agrees that it is a problem. He thinks his firm spends at least 25% more on legal fees relating to discovery than it did two years ago.</i> There is an interesting article on this topic in the lastest issue of the Economist.

Mr Wheeler ranks e-discovery as “the single most significant change to the legal system” since he left law school in 1969. Richard Baer, the top in-house lawyer for Qwest, a telecoms firm, will not go quite so far, but he agrees that it is a problem. He thinks his firm spends at least 25% more on legal fees relating to discovery than it did two years ago.

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