McDermott Will & Emery recently introduced a national document review service in response to the law firm’s growing demand for high-quality and cost-effective e-discovery services. This fires another volley in the continuing exchange between law firms on where e-discovery tasks should issue in the business and practice of law: in-house or outsourced.
Jackson Lewis, a national labor and employment law firm, decided to outsource to a vendor, Kroll Ontrack, all of its nonlegal electronic data discovery work that the firm’s litigation support department previously provided—direct to clients. Ralph Losey, a Jackson Lewis partner and member of the editorial board at Law Technology News, detailed five reasons for the business decision, including the high costs of engaging nonlegal e-discovery and that lawyers should stick to their core competencies of practicing law, which, arguably, do not include the complexity of nonlegal e-discovery.
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