e-discovery tips
Bringing inside:
W By Jim Middlemiss for in-house
hen Douglas McLean set out to investigate options for streamlining elec- tronic discovery (e-discovery) at TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., he didn't fully appreciate what he was getting into. "It became a much bigger project than I anticipated,
of litigation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution at the pipeline giant. "Along the way, I learned a lot." Three years later, TransCanada, which operates in Canada and the
" says the director
allows its in-house lawyers to better identify and manage relevant electronic documents when they are hit with litigation or become involved in regulatory matters. McLean notes that TransCanada has employees on both sides of the border. "When we imple-
United States, has a sophisticated, state-of-the-art internal e-discovery system that comprises a blend of hardware, software, and analytics. It
mented this, we wanted installations in both countries. We wanted the ability to search the entire system from either country, with the ability to store data in the country that it originally resided in." At the heart of what the legal department built is software from Recommind, Inc., which McLean says "is a fairly sophisticated system that allows us to do a fair amount of analytics on the data."
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