Posts Tagged ‘responsive’

I just got back from the ILTA show in Las Vegas. I had booth duty most of the time so have little opportunity to scout the show but had several interesting conversations with attendees as they came into the Iron Mountain booth.

I recently ran across a few articles on  U.K. developer CPC Group Ltd and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co, which is the real-estate investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund. The decision was that Qatari Diar wrongfully backed out of a deal to redevelop London’s landmark Chelsea Barracks site after the plan was opposed by Prince Charles, a judge ruled.  

From an article at litigationsupporttoday.com

The days when an attorney had to touch every document in a collection are gone. The volume of data in a typical case is simply too vast for such an outdated approach. Instead, forward-thinking organizations perform non-substantive reviews – those conducted for purely defensive purposes such as privilege, relevance, and responsiveness determinations—using automated technologies.

Over the last two years, the trend has been to bring some or all of the eDiscovery process in-house, mainly to save money…large amounts of money. This movement to bring eDiscovery in-house has risks associated with it, the risk of not fully being able to effectively meet all the process requirements i.e. not finding/recognizing all ESI that could be responsive or privileged. Many organizations have tried to bring eDiscovery in-house by relying on their current infrastructure solutions.

I have always been told relying on backups for eDiscovery purposes is a costly and time consuming mistake.

Searching through backup tapes or even a disk-based backup for eDiscovery is difficult. Imagine restoring 22 200 GB backup tapes of your employee workstations and

One of the most painful and risky aspects of the EDRM process is the collection and preservation of uncontrolled custodian ESI on laptops and desktops for ECA and legal hold.

The Cost of Collection:

Medium to large sized organizations are being driven to lower their overall litigation costs by bringing more of the eDiscovery processes in-house. To do this, organizations need to understand and proactively plan for the eDiscovery process. The most cost effective way to quickly lower eDiscovery costs are to prepare for the collection phase by putting in place an ESI archive to capture and manage those ESI silos that are most requested…Email, File System and SharePoint ESI.

In a recent survey conducted by Osterman Research, it was revealed that 82 percent of employees use their personal email accounts to send large work-related files when an email attachment exceeds the size limit imposed by IT.

Is this a problem?…YES

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:

1. It provides an early indication of the merits of the case