Saturday, December 10, 2011

Social Media Bringing IT and LEGAL Together, Recommind Study Reveals



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An article appearing on the marketwatch.com website, provided by the listed source Recommind.

This article discusses social media networks, and touches on the effect that social media use is having upon legal departments, as well as on corporate IT personnel.

The article focuses on Recommind's "third annual survey on the working relationship between corporate IT and legal departments. In contrast with last year's study, this year's indicates that the two departments are forging a more productive relationship as they work together to manage the most sensitive data in the enterprise."

The article cites a number of statistics about the relationship between legal and IT. The article also states that eDiscovery technical knowledge is improving, and that internal investigations and social media issues are bringing legal and IT closer together.

Among the statistics the article mentions, "Both IT and legal are making eDiscovery a higher priority
. -- 66.9% report that legal and IT are meeting to collaborate or strategize at least once per quarter, compared to 48.4% in 2010.
 -- Only 26.3% said IT considered eDiscovery a "low" or "very low" priority, down from 39.1% in 2010.
 -- Only 17.6% said that legal rated eDiscovery a "low" or "very low" priority, compared to 29.1% in 2010."

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