This is well worth a read for any UK firm and others for that matter.. IP Review online reports…
Law lord backs legal outsourcing systems
Lord Justice Rupert Jackson has backed document management tools provided by legal process outsourcing (LPO) firms as key drivers for cost control. Writing in the Final Report of his ‘Civil Litigation Costs Review’, conducted last year, Lord Jackson delivered a positive verdict on his own, first-hand view of document management systems. He also wrote of the necessity for counsel and judges to learn more about the field, and made several recommendations for cost management in IP cases.
Lord Jackson revealed that, in the course of his research towards the Final Report, he attended a demonstration of leading document management tools. The session involved a presentation by specialist providers, who each took a body of raw data that was used in the Enron bankruptcy case. Jackson was on hand to observe how the providers’ respective software could ‘search, sample, categorise and organise the data’.
‘The object of each of these systems,’ he said, ‘is to whittle down as far as possible the potentially relevant documents which will be passed to the lawyers for review and to enable the lawyers to search and organise documents passed to them.’ Lord Jackson felt the systems developed by each of the specialist providers were extremely impressive, adding: ‘I am sure that it would assist other members of the judiciary to know what technological help is available to the parties, to enable them to manage the disclosure process.’
Full article at?? http://www.cpaglobal.com/ip-review-online/4262/law_lord_backs_legal_outsourci
