Good commentary by the Posse List this morning regarding WilmerHale’s decision to open up an “in-sourcing” facility in Dayton, Ohio. The post was in response to an article on LAW360.com by Leigh Kamping-Carder.
Even with contract attorneys providing law firms the opportunity to cut their costs (and their clients’ costs) with respect to e-discovery, the expenditures can still be prohibitive, particularly in high-cost regions like D.C. and New York where the cost to maintain a document review is higher than elsewhere in the U.S. As we have reported in the past, besides the state-of-the-art technology driving costs down, the drive to cut costs has led corporations and law firms to seek other ways to cover their e-discovery work — without sending it overseas…
