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On Thursday, the Second Circuit called into question whether the document review work of contract lawyers in eDiscovery is “legal work”. Read about it in the Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg Business of Law . The WSJ quotes a Big Law partner commenting on the case ‘a trend toward classifying [document review] as non-legal’ could result in clients refusing to pay for skilled workers to take on such assignments, causing the work to ‘get pushed down to the lowest common denominator.’ This comment raises interesting questions: Why do GCs pay lawyer rates for document review in eDiscovery?
Read the complete article at: Why Do GCs Pay Lawyer Rates for Document Review in eDiscovery?