Third-Party Subpoenas Cost Companies Big Money… This Helps Them Carve Some Of That Back - NewsBreak

Everyone knows how expensive eDiscovery can get. But most folks rarely think about the institutions out there — often, but not always, third-parties — getting routinely harassed for mundane documents. We're talking about the banks subpoenaed for customer bank records or the large employer asked to produce employment information in a divorce case. These aren't requests that require outside counsel, but they're also time-consuming projects for small legal departments to constantly deal with.