E-Discovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures

CHAPTER 8: OUTSOURCING

Sometimes it may not make sense to handle E-Discovery requests in-house, especially if the required expertise is lacking internally, E-Discovery processes are largely undefined, there aren’t enough resources to spare, or significant portions of the IT infrastructure have been outsourced to a third party. Quite simply, a company should outsource its E-Discovery tasks if it is not ready to address them itself internally. Commonly outsourced tasks in the E-Discovery context include discovery planning and case management, litigation support (searching / collection), and forensic work (extraction / production). If enabling technology is involved, it is not always necessary to deploy that technology in-house, especially if ...