| I. The Challenge. | | | | customers. Conversely, a face-to-face interview of |
| Early case assessment and pre-discovery differ in | | | | known custodians may not yield all parties (unknown |
| their commitment to chain of custody and legal | | | | custodians) with whom an employee has |
| review of data. Early case assessment and | | | | communicated. |
| pre-discovery activity overlap in the collection phase | | | | II. A Solution. |
| of electronic discovery reference model (EDRM); the | | | | Getting to the center of a matter by way of |
| difference is what you do with the data. | | | | custodian and concept searching will improve your |
| Pre-discovery has more gray area as it relates to the | | | | legal risk management on a case-by-case basis. |
| impact on legal review and production. Early case | | | | However, many mid-sized organizations continue to |
| assessment offers more definition because it may | | | | face challenges in terms of cost and complexity |
| help you avoid going to trial or suffering a full | | | | when they want to evaluate email. Estorian |
| disclosure discovery. Using early case assessment | | | | LookingGlass Spherical Indexing can manage and |
| tools or solutions enables an organization become | | | | evaluate email at low cost, with reduced complexity |
| defensive before the meet and confer meeting. | | | | delivering, making it a valuable solution for the |
| Being prepared before a meet and confer meeting | | | | mid-market. Mid-sized companies have much more |
| can be challenging, but the rewards are less | | | | email than they realize, often exceeding 1-2 |
| discoverable data, therefore less reviewed data. | | | | Terabytes in size. For example, 3000 users manage |
| Electronic discovery interview series responses | | | | thirty-five 50 kilobyte messages a day over the |
| suggest that the rise in electronic discovery cost is | | | | course of 365 days will yield 1.35 Terabytes of email. |
| directly related to the rise in data being reviewed. | | | | "Spherical Indexing" receives much of its strength as |
| Therefore, preparation ahead of a meet and confer | | | | an index through the SQL tables it is based on. At |
| meeting can reduce your electronic discovery review | | | | first glance it may seem overly complex to manage |
| requirements, subsequently reducing your total | | | | Terabytes of data using SQL, but the current foot |
| discovery budget. For more information on | | | | print for full text indexing is 12-20% of the original |
| eDiscovery go to | | | | data storage. Therefore, a one terabyte archive |
| For example, Electronic mail early case assessment | | | | would result in about 120-200 gigabytes of index |
| will expose connections between users (custodians) | | | | data, with the average being about 120gigabytes. An |
| and subjects/activities (concepts) during specific time | | | | industry acceptable size for an index is between |
| frames. Since email is directly tied to corporate | | | | 10-15% of the source data. However, be sure to |
| identity; there is no mistaking or missing | | | | check your indexes, some only include a full text |
| communications between employees, partners and | | | | option and not a concept based search component. |