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By Umar Zulqarnain
Technology has had a considerable impact on the judicial landscape in America. The discovery process once relied primarily on droves of lawyers sifting through documents looking for evidence. This manual process has at least partly been replaced by advanced software. Software consisting of complex algorithms that search and produce documents. The amount of stored data requiring review has also increased exponentially over the years.
These changes are accompanied by an increasing number of cases being settled outside of court. Some argue it is because the intensive eDiscovery process allows ready access of information and case details. The process allows court decisions to be more predictable. Others argue that litigants are settling cases based on cost rather than merit. The cost of eDiscovery is driving everyone but the rich from the courts.
Read the complete article at: How to Better Prepare Your Company for Litigation and eDiscovery