In-House Counsel

Consolidated references to in-house discovery teams

By Rees Morrison

As reported in InsideCounsel, May 2008 at 18, Oracle?s law department has created an in-house virtual team headed by an e-discovery director. The ranks of legal departments with such teams swell every day (See my posts of Oct.1, 2005: Laura Kibbe and Pfizer; Aug. 26, 2006 #1: initiatives at Verizon, Cendant and Pfizer; Feb. 1, 2006: Verizon and Altria; Nov. 13, 2007: should law departments set up discovery teams; Jan. 28, 2008: Women in E-Discovery group; and April 13, 2008: Eastman Chemical?s discovery team).

One step the Oracle team is taking is to cut back from the many different e-discovery vendors it currently uses to ?two or three preferred providers? (See my posts of Feb. 9, 2006: hundreds of discovery vendors at LegalTech; and Feb. 19, 2007: mandates by departments to their firms to use one.). The term ?convergence? does not have to be limited to reductions in the number of law firms retained.

Full post as published by Law Department Management on May 03, 2008 (boomark / email).