From a post on how the new e-discovery rules in the USA are shaking out:

“In-house lawyers and IT people never have lunch together,” answers Ralph Losey, an attorney specializing in e-discovery at law firm Akerman Senterfitt.

Not only do they often not understand each other, they often don’t like each other. This is not good. Losey says they need to be close partners because each has to understand the needs of the other.

I don’t know if it is just my Texas upbringing, but working together to me always starts with eating together.  I’ve been in offices where everyone is too busy to make it a point to eat lunch together often, and a whole lot gets lost.  Work gets duplicated, people don’t know about potential synergies within the research or work that they are doing within their own department. In an area such as e-discovery, when the costs can be so great when the legal and IT departments don’t work together, it is important to start building connections between the two.

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