There are two kinds of legal departments out there: those that are prepared for a lawsuit involving a mountain of electronic documents and those that aren’t. Unfortunately, most fall into the latter category.
According to a November 2005 corporate litigation readiness study conducted by Connecticut-based market analyst EDDix, only 14 percent of the legal departments polled believe they have tools and processes in place to handle e-discovery, and only 28 percent rate their companies as more proactive than reactive when it comes to e-discovery readiness.
