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Survey Shows Increasing Gap Between Legal and IT Departments

By Eric Lipman

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Recommind, a software vendor with several e-discovery products, last week released the results of a survey showing that collaboration and communication between corporate legal departments and IT departments is on the wane. The press release doesn't specify how many companies, or what kind of companies, were surveyed, other than to say that respondents were "senior IT managers at enterprises averaging 13,000 employees." But the results are interesting. Some highlights: In 2009, 40 percent of respondents stated that their IT department considered e-discovery to be a high to very high priority; in 2010, that number has dropped to 26 percent. 72 percent of respondents report that their IT and legal teams meet once a quarter or less; 52 percent meet once a year or less and 23 percent never meet at all. When it comes to actually implementing e-discovery processes, the focus of each department is also quite different: The primary goal of the IT department is ?executing as quickly as possible? (35 percent), while the primary goal of the legal department is ?complying with federal regulations and court orders? (61 percent). At the Legal Project Management blog, Paul Easton endorses the notion of companies hiring "legal support managers" to fill...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).