The significant cost and disruption associated with e-discovery has led many companies to look for a “better way”.  Often the solution seems to be in software that crawl corporate networks looking for responsive documents.  It’s often called “enterprise search” and, with it, document collections are performed faster, with less disruption and therefore the costs plummet.  Sounds perfect, so what’s the problem?

For starters, most companies already suffer from “over-collection” in discovery. They don’t find too few documents.  They find too many.

Over-collection drives up review costs, which ultimately accounts for the majority of the cost of e-discovery.  With its inherent limited filtering capabilities, the reach and speed of enterprise search software dramatically identifies more documents for review than needed and dramatically drives up costs and legal risks.

There’s another issue.  You can’t really search the “enterprise” with software because the enterprise is made up of people who tend to save records in all sorts of places that enterprise search software can’t reach.  Places like thumb drives, home computers, unauthorized email accounts and even on paper.

Slashing the costs and risks of e-discovery doesn’t start with software.  We can show you ways that work.  In 60 days or less.  Contact us to learn more.