Understanding the total
cost of electronic discovery requires combining expenses from two primary categories: technology cost and attorney review cost.
The stages
of electronic discovery in civil litigation are: identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, production and presentation of evidence at a trial.
But if clients indexed all significant records as they were created or received, the review
stage of electronic discovery could be performed much the same way as is legal research.
The
impact of electronic discovery on our industry is often measured by legal professionals according to the amount of time, expense and headaches it has introduced to the litigation workflow.
Big data has found fertile ground on the IT side for law firms, in
terms of electronic discovery, management of electronically stored information, and predictive coding and analytics.
Designed for litigation support professionals and law clerks, this course will explore the legal and practical
principles of electronic discovery in a legal practice context.
But if cost, delay and contention came to characterize the process before the
advent of electronic discovery, the digital age has only thrown fuel on the fire.
The eight - week course is designed for litigation support professionals and law clerks and explores the legal and practical
principles of electronic discovery in a legal practice context.
Novato, CA About Blog eDiscovery solutions that are legally defensible and repeatable, customized to control costs and manage individual
aspects of the electronic discovery process.
Brett Burney is Principal of Burney Consultants LLC, and focuses the bulk of his time on bridging the chasm between the legal and technology
frontiers of electronic discovery.
This update, the first since 2012, updates case law and other sources of information, adds a new section of noteworthy articles, and adds a new section on judicial ethics in the
context of electronic discovery.
This new team will combine resources with the existing Australia Technology practice to offer clients in the region the full
range of its electronic discovery services, including computer forensics, investigations and its proprietary Ringtail ® e-discovery software.
One of the main
benefits of electronic discovery becoming the norm, rather than the exception, in MDL or class action lawsuits is that discovery is now accessible from anywhere in the world.
In May we announced the acquisition of an equity position with C: DOX, a partnership that provides XDD with a presence in the Cleveland legal market while offering C: DOX clients an expanded
array of electronic discovery and managed review services.
At the
beginning of an electronic discovery matter, the attorneys will work closely with the client to identify key witnesses that have knowledge about documents that could be responsive to the document requests received from opposing counsel or investigative counsel.
«Accenture has been leveraging Recommind's technology and services to achieve great discovery results since 2009,» said Rick Schoeneck, director
of electronic discovery at Accenture.
Updated commentary on the scope
of electronic discovery based on the Texas Supreme Court's recent opinion requiring that requested discovery be «proportional» to the needs of the case.
And throughout the text (346 pages) there are many reference to the relationship between the state of an ERMS system and the requirements and
procedures of electronic discovery.
RAND Europe was commissioned by FTI Consulting to prepare a short paper exploring the conflict between the European legal framework for privacy and data protection and the sometimes competing
requirements of electronic discovery («e-discovery») imposed on US firms with European subsidiaries by legislation such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).