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How time flies when you’re not writing a blog… It’s been two months since my last post, and it feels good to be back in the saddle.

As many of you know, The Cowen Group has been hosting regular Breakfast Roundtables in New York City that bring together top E-Discovery professionals and attorneys from the corporate and AmLaw space to discuss the evolution of critical trends in the industry.

Now more than ever, it is important for E-Discovery professionals to stay connected and build meaningful relationships with one another. To that end, we have expanded our Thought Leadership Breakfast series to Washington, D.C., Houston, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles – if you are in one of these cities and would like to know more about the Breakfast Roundtables, shoot me an email.

On that note, we just concluded our New York City Breakfast Roundtable on Early Case Assessment: Analyzing Today’s Tools. Thank you to our participants, and particularly to our Panelists, Patrick Oot, Glen McFarlane, Ronke Ekwensi, Mike Merlo, and Alysia Solow.

Our next Breakfast Roundtable will be in Washington, D.C. this Tuesday, August 4^th.

Glad to be back,

David Cowen

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I just wanted to write a quick thank you blog to Martha Mazzone, Patrick Oot, David Boyhan, Warren Solow and everyone who participated in our Breakfast Roundtable on Tuesday morning, April 21^st to our discuss Measuring and Evaluating In-House E-Discovery Legal Spend.

Our preliminary Critical Trends Survey on the subject came back with some interesting facts:

• 90% of Corporate E-Discovery managers are not able to track the details of their E-Discovery budget.
• Only 30% of Corporate E-Discovery managers are able to calculate their E-Discovery legal spend budget. For the rest, legal spend is simply a line on their cost sheet.
• While 58% of Corporate E-Discovery managers currently have E-Discovery hosting In-House, another 24% intend on doing so within the next year.
• While 33% of Corporate E-Discovery managers currently have E-Discovery processing In-House, another 31% intend on doing so within the next year.
• More Corporate E-Discovery managers have advanced degrees (65%) than do AmLaw200 E-Discovery managers (18%).

Our next Breakfast Roundtable will be held June 9^th, where we will discuss How to Compare and Contrast Early Case Assessment Tools and Offerings.

If you would like a copy of this report, or if you would like to join the June 9^th dialogue by taking our preliminary survey, email William@CowenGroup.com. 

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