The following is a link to the Wall Street Journal article, Tech Firms Pitch Tools for Sifting Legal Records by Justin Scheck. I found this article interesting and relevant to the issue of Information Technology and its impact.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121936262421062033.html
This article introduces a fairly new technology called e-discovery. This technology has accelerated in use since 2006. Initially, this technology is very expensive (in excess of $1 million) but companies can recoup this investment very quickly because of its advantages and cost savings. E-discovery is a type of document management system that sorts through legal documents and discards irrelevant information and makes the relevant documents accessible to lawyers who then analyze the documents.
The old process was very time consuming and expensive for law firms to pay lawyers to go through each and every document. The cost savings are huge for law firms. Some firms are concerned that they may have to pay extra to fix mistakes, but the overall consensus is positive.
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Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I like to think that attorneys are paid enough to have an actual person look through files do determine relevancy. The potential for mistakes or overlooked items should be a greater concern.
From a client view point, anything that would speed along the process and possibly reduce fees would be desireable.
I am all for using the internet for research and discovery. However, it will be necessary for the law firms to verify before applying the dicovery in their cases.
I believe this could be a wonderful tool to speed up the legal process which is currently incredibly slow.
Is there anything left to most legal documents after the irrelevant stuff has been eliminated?
Isn't it interesting to think about future generations looking back at all the paper trails left behind?
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