This shift stems in part from changes to the Federal established in the 1930s to govern Rules of Civil Procedure, civil lawsuits, says Gartner analyst John Bace. The rules ere last updated in 2006 to more broadly include electronic records in discovery, the process by which the parties engaged in lawsuits produce information demanded by others involved in the legal action. For his part, NBC Universal's Chow says an analysis of expenses showed that his company which had used a combination of internal tools and outside help, could be more cost-effective by going in-house. NBC Universal uses Clearwell's e-Discovery Platform to collect the data and perform the initial culling, which allows it to handle 100 percent of the early phases of e-discovery requirements before turning over documents for lawyers to review, Chow says. Ultimately for my team the decision to take e-discovery in-house was about efficiency," he adds