Legal Experts agree that the trend is toward outsourcing discovery.  The forces driving this trend include:

• The 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to e-discovery

• The global economy

• The increase in the use of technology and email

• The cost squeeze on corporate America

• Increases in attorney billing rates

Example of typical document review costs without outsourcing:[1]

• Collect average of 2 gigabytes of data from users on litigation hold list

• multiplied by 100 users = 200 gigabytes

• Culling reduces collected data by 90%, so 20 gigabytes remain for review

• 1 gigabyte ~ 65,000 Word pages

• 20 gigabytes x 65,000 pages = 1,300,000 pages for review

• Human review rate ~ 60 pages/hour

• Total review time ~ 21000 hours

• Law firm associate at $250/hour = $5,250,000

Click here to learn how much you can save by outsourcing your document reviews.

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See www.PrecisionDiscovery.com [2] which provides a web based calculator.  The PD ED Calculator can be used to help estimate the conversion rate between electronic media and paper media. 

[1] The Ethics of Outsourcing: An Update on ABA Formal Opinion 08-451 by Steven C. Bennett, Esq. (2008), p.17 (adapted to U.S. contract attorneys).

[2] Marshall Legal Staffing is not affiliated with Precision Discovery nor does it have any claim or interest in Precision Discovery or its electronic discovery calculator.  Nor does Marshall Legal Staffing guarantee the accuracy of the PD ED Calculator.

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