Do lawyers need to learn code? The role of eDiscovery consultants

The world of eDiscovery and, more broadly, legal process outsourcing, has changed quite dramatically over the past five to ten years. The number of documents that legal teams deal with day-to-day keeps increasing and data volumes containing information relevant to litigations continue to soar. The problem that legal teams have is that budgets are not growing with them.

The result is that legal teams are dealing with huge volumes of information and the amount of money that they have to spend on these matters is not growing at the same rate. eDiscovery and document review is one of the most costly aspects of a litigation. Therefore, legal teams have to look at reducing costs by using technology to decrease the volume of documents that may be required for review.