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27 October 2014
Categories: Features , E-disclosure , Procedure & practice , Costs , Budgeting
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Jeffrey T Shapiro & James Morrey-Jones examine how law firms should budget for e-discovery post-Jackson

Whether you agree or disagree with the changes ushered in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) or are straddled on the barbed wire fence between the two camps, we are nearly 18 months on from the biggest change in law reform since the Woolf reforms were enacted in 1999. We are not here to argue for one side or the other; the fact is we are on this rollercoaster together, and many of us do not know where it is going to take us. After the barrel rolls of the Mitchell judgment and the batwings of the fallout, we now find ourselves in seemingly calmer waters of Denton’s three-stage test. With these decisions we may have moved on in the world of case law, yet lurking in the water is the tick tock of the big, bad ad hoc world of budgeting

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