Many years ago when e-discovery software did not exist, large legal cases were much more expensive to carry out. With the new technology that has come out, much larger cases can be completed without involving nearly as much money into the process and it really isn’t that hard to do either.
In the old days a team of lawyers would have to look through documents in order to figure out what documents were relevant to the current case or not. These lawyers would look through stacks of documents and decide which documents were useful and which documents were not useful.
In order for this to happen effectively with large cases, very large teams of lawyers would have to be employed to go through and figure out what types of documents should be kept and what to get rid of. It was common to have massive rooms full of lawyers just looking through documents on a regular basis.
Although that old system worked quite well at solving cases, there is a better way to get it done and that way will save many people huge amounts of money with their cases.
Instead of lawyers sifting through pages, a computer does all of the sifting for them. The computer uses some pretty high tech programs to make sure that the documents that it goes through have something to do with the case and then it holds onto them.
For not being human the programs have very consistent results. They also work very quickly through a set of several different programs that all serve different functions towards a common goal. They are very consistent because they follow the same set of rules every single time. That means that you don’t have to worry about things like human error, or boredom getting in the way of accurate information.
With computers on the job you don’t need all of those expensive laywers. Instead you need a single person to operate all of the machines and the make sure that they don’t break down at all. They also get the work done faster than lawers do which is a good thing as well.
With the faster working computers on the job, and no more attorneys covering the work you save a huge amount of money on the services that you now pay for. This means that the larger legal cases can be completed for much less money, and it means that the cases can be processed much faster than they otherwise would be.
E-discovery software is still quite new, but most legal firms could stand to save a lot of money by adopting the software into use and avoiding all of the costs of hiring professionals to dig through documents for you. By going the more efficient route you will get more work done for the money that you have to spend.
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