A good article (” Tech Firms Pitch Tools for Sifting Legal Records “) from the Wall Street Journal hammers out some of the tension between automated e-discovery tools and the hesitancy of lawyers and law firms to embrace “the machines.”
In reading the piece, Carolyn Elefant on the Legal Blog Watch was reminded of John Henry , the steel-drivin’ man who beat a steam-powered machine in hammering railroad spikes, but died in the process.
Ron Friedmann believes that the article “oversimplifies the issue” of “lawyers trying to protect their billable hours, … but does alert corporate managers (think CFOs and CEOs) … to more cost-effective ways to approach litigation.” Like Ron, I’m just glad to see coverage of the topic in the WSJ.
The WSJ piece reports on how HP, Xerox, EMC, and IBM have jumped into the market of providing automated solutions for collecting, preserving and producing ele...
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