Navigating an E-discovery Fee DisputeA mock e-discovery fee dispute takes aim at who has the responsibility for ensuring cost-effective processes.
Joe Howie, a former in-house counsel at Phillips Petroleum takes a look at the cost of eDiscovery and who should be responsible for controlling the costs. With no clear answer at the outset, he ultimately comes to the conclusion, "that implementing cost-effective processes for e-discovery is an ethical obligation owed by both in-house and outside counsel to the corporation, and that in-house counsel ought to recognize that outside counsel may not perceive that it is in their short-term economic best interests to reduce the number of billable hours spent reviewing e-discovery. To read the article in its entirety go to:
http://www.insidecounsel.com/Issues/2010/July-2010/Pages/EDiscovery-Fee-Dispute.aspx
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