For most litigators, “litigation technology” is synonymous with e-discovery and predictive coding. Yet while these technologies can play an important role in the litigation process, they focus on a limited (though critical) problem space: helping find usable evidence. Litigation collaboration picks up where e-discovery and predictive coding leave off. Rather than enhancing the analysis of written records, litigation collaboration focuses on turbocharging the human interactions between litigators, experts and clients to produce the most effective insights from the information uncovered by e-discovery.
When attorneys hear the term “litigation collaboration,” few know what to think. Most would automatically finish the sentence in their minds with “mediation.” But in today’s world, collaboration as a technology is poised to supersede collaboration as a means of dispute resolution.
