Is your attorney making e-discovery too expensive?

May 3, 2010

Craig Ball's article for ALM this month is well worth your time, if only for this gem:

Two-thirds of the money spent on e-discovery is wasted solely because the lawyers have little or no idea what they are doing.

-- Craig Ball, Are We Paying Five Times Too Much for E-Discovery?, EDD Update (May 2, 2010), http://www.eddupdate.com/2010/05/are-we-paying-five-times-too-much-for-ediscovery.html.

Interestingly, note that he isn't talking about your vendor's role, but your attorney's role in the process.