Early Case Assessment Requires Planning
Litigation is a major problem these days for businesseswith a significant portion of the cost being the cost of finding and reviewing electronically stored information (ESI) for both Early Case Assessment (ECA) as well as eDiscovery Request response.
An Early Case Assessment capability provides you with 4 key benefits:
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It provides an early indication of the merits of the case
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It can suggest the proper legal strategy going forward
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It will help you plan for the discovery process and prepare for the “meet and confer” session
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And it can provide you a cost and time estimate for defending the case
An effective early case assessment capability is highly dependent on having access to all relevent case data early on to formulate you stratefy. Put simply, the ECA process will answer the most importnat question: “Does this case have merit?”.
A proactive, centrally managed, fully indexed data archive that captures all potentially responsive data will speed the review and culling of ESI so that you can settle an un-winnable case early or defend a winnable case. A proactive archive will also speed your response to discovery and ensure the placement of litigations hold thereby dramatically reducing your risk of spoliation.
A proactive ESI archive, like the Mimosa NearPoint Archive, will speed the review and culling of potentially responsive records for early case assessment, as well as more fully control and ensure the placement of litigation holds.
Tags: culling, early case assessment, ECA, ESI, Legal Strategy, litigation hold, Meet and Confer, Proactive, responsive, review, Spoliation
