Legal driving IT v. Business driving IT
by Daniel Garrie
In the global world it seems a shift is starting. It seems that a company to successfully operate must successful merge the IT, legal, and business needs to manage internal risks and costs. A central driving force: e-discovery. It seems in the morass of technology deployments underlying the rapid transition from paper to digital. Of course, substantial cost efficiencies have been achieved, but companies are realizing that there was a lapse in the process of translating paper to digital records. This lapse initially was not that evident, but it has been compounded by the rapid adoption of the Web and communication tools by companies.
One of the result: the 1000's of paper documents which lawyers reviewed 10 years earlier have become 1,000,000's, resulting in substantial legal and technology costs and risk. Is it possible that this substantial rise in discovery costs is driving the need to manage the intersection of law, technology, and business? I think to some extent. What do you think? How does this impact companies who operate mainly outside of the United States?
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Featured Blogger Daniel Garrie
Daniel Garrie is a principal with CRA International, a global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, industries, accounting firms, and governments around the world. Daniel specializes in legal technology risk management. He consults primarily to in-house counsel and IT departments on information management strategies in the United States and internationally, e-policy guidance synchronization (policies and operations), e-discovery litigation risk management and legal technology strategies, integration, and best practices. His areas of expertise range from digital privacy, e-discovery, VoIP, e-Discovery, SOX, digital sexual harassment, and spyware. He is frequently sought after presenter at legal and technology seminars and conferences worldwide.
Prior to joining CRA, Mr. Garrie was a vice president of LegalTech Group where he provided subject matter expertise and project management in engagements pertaining to e-Discovery, vendor selection, litigation readiness, digital privacy, and digital information risk management.
Mr. Garrie is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey, and currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Legal Technology Risk Management.
Anthony I. Giacobbe, Jr. also contributes to this blog.
Tony is Of Counsel in the New York office of the law firm of Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP. He represents major financial institutions and other clients in civil, criminal, regulatory and compliance related matters. Tony also represents clients in connection with investigations initiated by Congress and by federal, state and local prosecutors and regulators. Tony received a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University in 1989. In 1993 he received a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at New York University.
Tony writes and lectures on electronic discovery and technology issues to various corporate management,accounting and technology groups. Tony is a member of the e-discovery working group of the Sedona Conference, a leading think tank dealing with the intersection of law and information technology.
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