We’ve all seen the headlines: Companies are cutting budgets. They’re shedding projects and people alike in record numbers, including those from corporate legal and IT, leaving more work for fewer people. It’s also no secret that the largest budget item for corporate legal departments is usually their outside counsel fees, a significant fact when the current economic conditions are creating extreme pressure to make significant cost reductions across the board.
In working with a number of corporate counsel and enterprise IT professionals, there is clearly heightened interest in investigating whether to bring more e-discovery in-house to reduce costs. What’s not so clear, however, is what exactly to bring in-house, and just as importantly, how to do it in a way that won’t overwhelm current budget and human resource limitations.
