It's a very broken business process. Companies just don't have tools to do this in the right way. Sometimes the cost of discovery can be higher than whatever settlement ends up getting paid in a lawsuit.

We went through a lot of pain, and spent a lot of money just for data processing costs on some pretty routine discoveries. That got my attention.

You end up not being able to handle that in house, and it gets thrown over the wall to an outside counsel. Once you throw it over the wall, they charge you a tremendous amount of money by the hour to review that information.

The judge didn't order the feds to suddenly release all sorts of classified or secret information. All the judge did was to tell the Justice Department that it has to speed up its response to a request for information about the National Security Agency program. And the information that initially will be released will be very unspecific. The big battles are yet to come over how much of this stuff eventually is made public.

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