Ediscovery@retail

Corporates battling out in court and large money chasing few law-firms is no surprise.
But an anorexic patient requiring to pull out all emails, chats, net 2.0 profiles and then producing them to the opposite counsel for an insurance claim dispute does raise some eyebrows. With amount of speciously important data (chats, phone conversations, profiles, emails, scanned OCRed notes, hard-drive documents, online documents etc etc) every dispute is going to take longer than ever. Simple landlord-tenant disputes can take upto three years with legal costs over-running all over. A divorse case with slight bitterness can have couples running to view and review all chat messages and social networking pings fo each other and people in their circle. In the past post ediscovery 5% of cases went to trial and now only 2% do. The cost of ediscovery has become the most important reason for out-of-court settlement.