Middle Market Resisting eDiscovery Tools: BDO Survey

Slowly, corporate attorneys are making progress on eDiscovery.

A BDO Consulting survey of 140 senior in-house counsel at U.S. corporations found the following about “middle market” companies with between $100 million and $1 billion in revenue:

• 30 percent have adopted technology-assisted review.

• 15 percent have adopted data-visualization techniques.

• Half of the middle market organizations haven’t employed any recent eDiscovery technological advances, the survey found.

By contrast, a higher percentage of companies that have more than $11 billion in annual revenue are adopting technology:

• 47 percent use technology-assisted review.

• 27 percent use data visualization.

This year, the survey respondents reported their adoption rates. One year ...