Cloud Enables Law Department Control of E-Discovery

2016 is the year the cloud becomes mainstream for corporations. Security fears have been allayed and its cost and accessibility advantages have brought increasing amounts of corporate data into cloud repositories. Just as corporations have turned to the cloud to securely manage data, legal departments should now look to the cloud for solutions that provide cost-effective approaches to e-discovery and have the scalability to meet future needs.

The cloud empowers legal teams to seize control, streamline processes, reduce investment in infrastructure and be ready to respond rapidly to matters of any size. Surprisingly, even when change promises to save an organization time and money and make a team more efficient, it often encounters resistance and is difficult to implement. But the economy, simplicity and speed of cloud solutions can ease the difficulty and fear associated with insourcing e-discovery and make it possible for organizations of any size to incrementally bring more work in house.

Three factors that make it easy for organizations to start insourcing e-discovery: True-cloud software is available as a subscription-based operational expense that is affordable and predictable; cloud-based software can be deployed quickly, requiring little to no support from IT; and cloud software is generally so intuitive that anyone can use it, regardless of technology experience.

Given the growing complexity of data and increasing pressure to meet management goals, the cloud has become corporate legal’s new best practice for reducing waste across the entire discovery process.