Canadian Lawyer InHouse

Jun/Jul 2009

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coming months because outside counsel don't seem to be interested." At present, the market for non-legal, third-party vendors remains thin. There turing data without changing it, often applying talents honed in fraud and other investigative roles. Others focus on the compiling and processing work, Donovan believes the market could be opened up if outside counsel would get themselves up to speed, and he believes in-house counsel may be able to force this change upon them. "In-house lawyers are Lots of clients do not have enough litigation. Even if they experience a large and occasionally signifi cant piece of litigation, they'd rather send it out because it's not their area of expertise. – SUSAN WORTZMAN, Wortzman Nickle Professional Corp. animated by governance values and cost conse- quences to address the issue in advance. If they raise the standard of prac- tice in their own companies by starting their own sys- tems, and then bring their advisers up to speed with them, their interest and ability might migrate into are only about 20 facilities in Canada, including Commonwealth Legal Inc., Platinum Legal Group Inc., several accounting firms, and some individual computer service organizations. Some concentrate on the forensic task of cap- employing culling software to bring hundreds of gigabytes of material down to something that can be reviewed doc- ument by document. While they are all in stiff competi- tion and their prices are going down, the broader bar." That in turn will lead to less market restriction on what is a very individual choice on keeping e-discovery behind doors, putting it out for hire, or doing a little bit of both. IH manaemenreainess o orer ocumen review eecronic courroom aw irm ecnooies conerences venors seecion ria aa aerin rocessin reenion rooco eam e-cour examinaion winess awer eucaion e-iin rainin suoena uces ecum securi oic mee coner coss reucion anon ier searc e-evience crieria nowee enerrise conen comiance ea ecnooies iiaion reareness e-iscover 38 • JUNE 2009 Untitled-5 1 INHOUSE 5/4/09 10:50:45 AM

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