Below is an excerpt and a link to an article about some of the new challenges facing lawyers and IT alike with regard to electronic discovery.

"E-discovery is now cutting across all the legal demographics of firm size, case values and attorneys but a significant number of lawyers are still unfamiliar with the requirements and characteristics of electronic discovery. No single vendor is dominating the market and national vendors are clearly splitting the business with local shops.

More important, although well known products such as Summation and Concordance have a high market presence, they are now being pushed by the rise of Web based applications. For years, the annual AmLaw Tech Survey has shown that large firms use both Summation and Concordance but are slowly moving to web based application. My surveys of small firms over the past two years have shown a similar trend."

To read the full article, click here.

Article authored by Tom O'Connor and originally published on the docNative Paradigm Blog.