Royer could not disclose actual figures, but he says that bringing some of the e-discovery functions in-house immediately reduce that aamount of material the company had to send to outside counsel for reviewing. In fact, he says it cut the amount"by well over 75 percent the next four litigation matters that arose post-implementation. These matters arose within the first six months of go-live and the cost savings put us into a 300 percent ROI within that same time frame. The move to bring e-discovery in-house also corresponds with a broadening in how companies define e-discovery, says Jonathan Gossels, president and CEO of SystemExperts Corp., a security consulting firm in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Companies now realize that they need the ability to search electronic records not just in response to legal action, he says. They also need it for regulatory requests and inquiries and for their own internal investigations, such as potential security breaches or personnel violation."That's why it makes perfect sense to bring it in-house It's the recognition that they need it to run their day-to-day business," Gossels says, noting that customers are increasingly defining the function as"discovery and investigations.