The legal strategies for BP and other companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster have yet to be revealed. But one thing is certain. Their in-house legal departments are in the midst of an expensive and Herculean task – discovery.
“All of these organisations are well aware of the need to preserve and collect key information,” said Jim Wagner, CEO of DiscoverReady, a discovery management service. “But few organisations have ever confronted the scale of discovery that they are likely to have to undertake.”
