UK Lags US in eDiscovery
May 9, 2010
Here’s my view from the mine run off pond: When products and services don’t sell, companies with alleged grievances can turn to litigation. The idea is that a court may produce some cash in tough times. Governments get in the game as well. Pile on some regulations and then cut the weak ones from the herd. There may be some revenues to squeeze from regulated outfits who get confused or stumble over the big letters of the law.
I read “Recommind Research Shows UK Companies Not Ready for e-Disclosure”. The key passage in the write up for me was:
As it happens, Simon Price was here in Oxford last Friday, showing me predictive coding in Recommind’s e-Disclosure product Axcelerate eDiscovery. I do not spend much time actually looking at applications, but the rate at which they advance on the problems means that even I am in danger of losing touch with what they are capable of doing. Who, you wonder, would court the risk and expense which appears from those recent judgments when applications like this exist to mitigate the risk? The answer appearing from Recommind’s survey is that most corporations of more than 1,000 employees court that risk.
Will Recommind’s data motivate UK organizations to hop on the eDiscovery bandwagon? I know that losing and paying are useful cattle prods. Are the data valid? I will leave that to you.
Stephen E Arnold, May 9, 2010
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