What benefits does electronic discovery provide for corporate counsel?
• It helps corporate counsel gain better control over legal expenditures related to discovery, which results in better utilization of your financial resources. • Electronic discovery gives you complete and unbiased access to information, helping to avoid surprises about what information exists within your company’s electronic files. • It allows clear understanding of the level of legal risk in order to make informed business decisions about resolving legal matters. • Electronic discovery helps to understand and gauge the company’s legal exposure. Having visibility into the company’s level of legal exposure is important to the management team, insurance company, risk management and corporate compliance departments, board of directors and shareholders.