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Evaluating the Electronic Discovery Capabilities of Outside Law Firms.(Book review)

Publication: Legal Information Alert

Publication Date: 01-OCT-07

Author: Rusin, Deborah L.
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Evaluating the Electronic Discovery Capabilities of Outside Law Firms. Jeffrey Ritter and Karen Worstell. 2006. Pike & Fischer/BNA Books. Softcover. 118p. ISBN: 0-937275-19-0. $289.

Writing this book review was difficult for me. First of all, I couldn't seem to get over the sticker shock at the price: $289 for a paperback consisting of no more than 118 pages in total! Working in a law firm I am not naive about the cost of legal publications. I am well aware of the fact that a single print publication can cost hundreds of dollars--thousands for a multivolume treatise--but not $289 for a 118-page paperback. I think the price alone is going to be a hard sell to any institution.

Once I was able to finally tell myself, "Ignore the price evaluate the content, ignore the price evaluate the content," I began by looking more closely at the authors, Jeffrey Ritter and Karen Worstell.

Jeffrey Ritter, a J.D. and co-founder of Waters Edge Consulting (www.wec-llc.com) has been involved extensively in extending the rule of law to the Internet and global cyberspace. Included in this "extension" are such items as electronic signatures, electronic discovery, information security controls, and data forensic investigation. He is also involved in such organizations as the...

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