Winston & Strawn goes head-to-head with e-discovery vendors

20 July 2014 – An interesting piece in The Washington Post about Winston & Strawn:

“Winston wants to compete head to head with e-discovery vendors such as FTI and Kroll. This year, the firm started pushing a new service in which Winston’s e-discovery team will handle e-discovery for cases even if other law firms — often their competitors in the legal market — are handling the actual litigation of the case”.

The piece states that one of the fastest-growing departments at Winston & Strawn is also one of the most obscure, at least to many outside of the legal world:

“The law firm has taken the unusual step of creating an in-house shop to handle an important but unglamorous part of the legal process known as e-discovery — the management of electronically stored data such as e-mails and text messages that law firms and corporate legal departments must gather, analyze and turn over to adversaries in litigation, and to the government in investigations of corporate malfeasance”.

For the full piece click here.