Many people understand what document review is and when it needs to be performed. But do you know how to prepare for a review before it begins? To make a document review successful, it's important to proactively prepare your workflow and stick to guidelines that can inform and expedite your process. If you are aware of [...]
Data migration can be very exciting – when it goes wrong! There is enough excitement in the world (global pandemic, stock market roller coaster, US Presidential election, hazmat Santa’s, etc.) so let's avoid the unnecessary excitement of a failed data migration. We have migrated hundreds of projects from a variety of platforms to RelativityOne. As [...]
While we weren’t able to attend in person this year, as the event was virtual, RelFest 2020 delivered a full agenda of informative sessions and lively discussions. Here are the top 5 takeaways we think are the RelFest Best: AERO – Simply powerful brand-new modern User Interface speeds you through review Relativity’s new Aero UI [...]
In e-discovery, defensibility is the name of the game. As the amount of electronic data eligible for review continues to grow exponentially, technology continues to generate new means for culling that data in response to discovery requests. For practitioners, the underlying concern in using this technology often boils down to the question of whether a [...]
In 2006, The Sedona Conference (TSC), a research organization on the forefront of eDiscovery and often cited by the courts, set forth The Sedona Principles: Best Practices Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production (2d. ed. 2007). In particular, Sedona Principle 6 states: “Responding parties are best situated to evaluate the procedures, methodologies, and [...]
Special Counsel Innovations in Defensible Approaches to Collecting, Processing and Hosting Data. When acquiring companies in the tech industry, the most common advice given to CEOs is: “Don’t worry about defensibility. Focus on doing something to delight customers and do it better.” While we certainly understand and appreciate the importance of delighting our customers and [...]
Project Management is the structured application of skill, knowledge, tools and techniques to organize activities and bring about a desired outcome that meets a project or business need. Emerging software platforms and new versions of ESI that change the way we review data are constantly changing. When the technology around us changes, it is important [...]
With the explosion of ESI, the costs associated with document review have increased exponentially – which is why firms have been looking to identify ways to make this workflow more efficient and less expensive. With all the complexities that go into planning and executing a document review workflow, many organizations have been realizing the benefits of involving [...]
The MVPs “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard Our Managing Attorneys are an elite tactical squad. They are prepared, trained, and ready to meet any challenge head on. They are fearless and ready to take the [...]
Deduplication. What a headache. Time and time again we continue to encounter identical records that refuse to deduplicate. Some contributing factors include email migration, the format in which custodians store their emails, file manipulation, and collection from multiple email clients. Did you know that collection from mobile devices usually includes images and icons as attachments versus an [...]
The types of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) are rapidly evolving due to changes in the way people communicate. Traditional data forms such as a standard email with recognizable metadata fields for sender, recipient, subject and body text are being replaced by internal group chat systems, tools and devices that store and display data in ways [...]
When “electronically stored information” or “ESI” first became a key phrase in litigation discovery, the electronic portion pertained primarily to the retention and preservation of email communications. However, as technology continues to develop, the amount of electronic data created grows exponentially. Changing trends in technology In its annual study, Domo estimates that by 2020 each [...]
In today’s typical enterprise environment, collection points expand far beyond an exchange server and a share drive. From the cloud and mobile data to social media and chat, collection points are incredibly diverse, leading to data related issues that result in over collection and the proliferation of duplicates records. Deduplication defined In 2019, I am sure [...]
Here are eDiscovery Case Highlights from 2018. They are “News You Can Use” because each of them comes with a caution and a best practice you can leverage in your advice to in-house counsel, outside counsel, business clients and the technology and legal teams on which you work. AL OTRO LADO, INC v NIELSEN 3:17-CV-02366-BAS-KSC [...]
Legal Staffing Paralegals: Paralegals are in a hot job market! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says “Employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 15 percent from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations. Formally trained paralegals with strong computer and database management skills should have the best [...]
This post addresses steps legal teams should take and missteps to avoid upon receiving evidence collected by clients and production data sets from opposing counsel. There have been multiple posts published around the best ways to identify, collect, analyze, review and produce data. This post will not revisit those discussions, but will address the proper course of action one should take on [...]
During his keynote at LTNY, Jeff DeGraff explains why lawyers find it hard to innovate in the delivery of legal services. In contrast, Chuck Kellner explains why successful businesses in litigation support and eDiscovery are essentially—and continuously—innovative. Jeff DeGraff is an innovation guru. He explains to people how they can innovate and what are their impediments [...]
This post defines predictive analytics, explains how it functions and when it can be applied during discovery to facilitate more efficient workflows. In the previous article we introduced the three different groups of analytics one can apply in discovery; structured, conceptual and predictive analytics. The focus of this article will be an overview on predictive analytics. Predictive [...]
A lot of information is being published about the processes and workflows required to support projects that include technology assisted review, data analytics, and other more advanced functionality. Important as they are, I question whether the attention to these new workflows is causing us to lose focus on the foundational building blocks of effective and [...]
Document Review can sometimes be monotonous. Staring at a couple of monitors for hours on end trying some decisions on documents, yeah… not my cup of tea. So, if you’re going to do it you might as well do it right. There are several ways to code records within Relativity all of which are based [...]
