For most companies, the process of deciding whether to insource e-discovery begins with a few major goals in mind: to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and amplify the control you have over the process. In fact, many Legal departments (and businesses as a whole) are finding that there are major savings all along the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), from legal hold and preserving data in place to collecting and producing their own data sets.

According to “The State of E-Discovery 2020,” which compiled data from several different legal reports published in the last year, Legal departments have decided to bring e-discovery services in-house for all of the reasons stated above—and more. Read on to learn how and why the insourcing of e-discovery has improved legal outcomes.