Corporate eDiscovery: The New In-House Playbook

eDiscovery can be a high-stakes game in corporate litigation, and in-house legal teams are being asked to play smarter, faster, and more cost-effectively than ever before. 

Yet despite budget pressures, increased regulatory scrutiny, and exploding data volumes, many corporate legal departments still rely on reactive, ad-hoc discovery workflows that create risk and waste valuable resources. That’s why I recently wrote The Corporate Legal Team’s Playbook for eDiscovery – a concise, practical guide that helps Legal Operations leaders and General Counsel rethink their approach.

This blog post previews some key tips and insights from the playbook to equip your team for better outcomes.

Why Corporate Legal Teams Need Their Own Playbook

For years, eDiscovery strategy has been driven largely by outside counsel. But leading corporate legal teams have been taking a more proactive role, crafting their own internal workflows, engaging the right technology, and choosing eDiscovery partners who understand the business pressures in-house counsel face.

Why does this matter? When legal departments take control of discovery strategy, they gain visibility into spend, improve outcomes, and significantly reduce risk.

Three Questions Every Legal Department Should Be Asking

1. Who’s really in charge of my eDiscovery process?
   If it’s a patchwork of law firms, vendors, and IT stakeholders without a centralized, repeatable process, then you’re flying blind. The playbook outlines how to bring order to chaos with clear roles, responsibilities, and workflows.
   
   
2. Are my eDiscovery costs predictable… or painful?
   Legal teams often accept unpredictable invoices as the cost of doing business. But that’s changing. With the right eDiscovery partner, processes, and platform (like RelativityOne or Everlaw), corporate teams can gain budget predictability and efficiency. Proteus helps clients make that leap.
   
   
3. How defensible is my process?
   Discovery decisions are only as good as the documentation behind them. A defensible eDiscovery process (from preservation through production) requires transparency, quality control (QC), and deep experience. Proteus’s litigator-led model ensures your processes will stand up under scrutiny.

Get the Full Playbook

If you're a General Counsel, Legal Operations leader, or corporate attorney who wants to:

• Streamline litigation workflows
• Lower discovery spend
• Reduce risk
• Collaborate better with outside counsel
• Modernize your approach without reinventing the wheel

Then this guide was written for you. Download the full eBook: The Corporate Legal Team’s Playbook for eDiscovery. (You’ll be glad you did.)