We had to find a way to provide a better IT service to reduce the amount of data hand over, to see how much more of that review cycle we could pull in-house] with our legal team before they send it out to outside counsel," he says. "It was an IT initiative to say. "We've got to do this better to cut this cost .Royer says IT's initial implementation focused on giving the company's in-house legal team the technology to search and hold e-mails. A hold keeps the data from being moved into long-term storage. Now, with that done, IT plans to add features so the legal department can perform e-discovery searches and holds on additional data sources and repositories, such as file servers and backup tapes.