What it costs you today
In a corporate legal department with 6 lawyers and 1,500 active case files across contracts, powers of attorney, lawsuits and rulings, the archive lives split between the senior lawyer's office, 3 file servers with inconsistent permissions and a personal OneDrive that nobody else can open. When a case closes nobody saves the complete case file, and for an eDiscovery the external firm takes 2 to 3 months to assemble the dataset because it has to request document by document from each lawyer. The legal team loses 20 to 30 hours per eDiscovery reconstructing the history, with an external cost of between USD 50,000 and USD 120,000 per regulatory request. In litigation or a regulator investigation, failing to deliver the case file within 72 hours can escalate the sanction. "The last eDiscovery cost us 3 months and USD 95,000" was the witness case. How much does it cost us not to have eDiscovery integrated?
What changes when you have it
All legal documents live in a SharePoint with Restricted and Legal sensitivity labels, 10-year retention policies configured per document type, and native Microsoft Purview eDiscovery that the in-house lawyer operates without external counsel. The lawyer builds the query with keywords, dates and custodians and downloads the exportable dataset in hours instead of months, with preserved chain of custody. The archive has full-text search, versioning and per-active-case legal hold that prevents accidental deletion. The visible output is the legal site with search, retention and the eDiscovery panel. The solution is in production at a regulated financial entity where the last regulatory eDiscovery closed in 9 days instead of 3 months, saving USD 80,000. The investment pays back with a single complex eDiscovery delivered on time.
Archive with retention + eDiscovery + sensitivity labels
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