It’s just so…
Quick fire answers to some of the most common concerns
It’s just so … unnecessary when we already have a case management system
Many firms have already invested in a case management system (Concordance, Summation, Introspect, Ringtail, Openlaw etc.) and the hardware and infrastructure necessary to support it. Fee earners have been trained on and have become comfortable with these systems. But case management systems and e-disclosure solutions are different beasts....
It’s just so … expensive
Whether a consequence of myth, misunderstanding or misinformation, the commonly held view that e-disclosure will be expensive is not quite true....
It’s just so … much easier to stick with paper
We are all used to paper. It’s easy to read and it’s easy to mark up, counsel like it, courts are used to it. But are you really saying that it is easy or efficient to, say, print out 10,000 emails and review them one by one (including reviewing each copy of each email)? And how are you going to justify making more copies of the relevant emails to produce to the other party, circulate round experts and produce to the Court?....
It’s just so … complicated
For some, all of the information about e-disclosure out there is very confusing. All this talk about forensics and gigabytes and hard drives is enough to make a lawyer want to stick with old fashioned paper disclosure. Why is this so much more complicated than the way disclosure used to be? How can you get a handle on what really matters in electronic disclosure? ...
