Again, not surprising that even large legal departments don’t segregate and track e-discovery costs

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A blog post by Rees Morrison, Esq. posted on the Law Department Management blog.

This article discusses eDiscovery costs, and examines recent survey results.

The article states, "In Met. Corp. Counsel, March 2012 at 16, an FTI consultant mike.kinnaman@fticonsulting.com shares some findings from FTI’s interviews last fall with 31 in-house counsel. The topic was e-discovery and the participants were primarily from huge U.S. companies. He writes, “In spite of greater emphasis and attention on e-discovery, corporations still don’t have a concrete understanding of how much they spend year over year.” The consultant was also surprised that “most participants don’t yet have a line-item tracking system for all expense areas [of e-discovery].”"

The blog post goes on to provide some insight into why eDiscovery costs are not tracked more effectively.