Immediate Case Assessment (ICA) Quickly identify the patterns or gaps in collected data, remove irrelevant information, and isolate hot documents in order to prioritize reviews for efficiency and work product quality.
Webinar: The Next Black Box: ChatGPT, LLMs, and Legal Technology
Webinar: The Next Black Box: ChatGPT, LLMs, and Legal Technology Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are suddenly everywhere, with companies announcing new integrations daily – including in the legal industry. But what is
Webinar: Off-Channel Communications: Strategies and Best Practices
Webinar: Off-Channel Communications: Strategies and Best Practices Never have there been so many communication devices, apps, and services available for use by employees, and employees helping themselves to these options can create
Sampling Techniques for Litigation and Investigations
Despite years of discussion in the eDiscovery industry about the power and importance of sampling techniques – particularly in the context of technology-assisted review (TAR), many practitioners remain unfamiliar with what they can accomplish with them, and when, outside of TAR, they might do so.
ED105 – Clearing the Fog of War: ECA Fundamentals
The fog of war is apt shorthand for the state of uncertainty that exists early in a new legal matter: What are the facts? What are the risks? What evidence exists, and what does it show? Early case assessment (ECA) is how we start to answer those questions.
ED104 – Time to Make the Donuts: Processing Fundamentals
The range of potential ESI sources is continually multiplying and diversifying. Processing is how we work with that diverse range of materials without using as many different pieces of software as there are types of sources and how we enable searching and document identification across different source types.
ED103 – The Grand Scavenger Hunt: Collection Fundamentals
With source types multiplying – including challenging sources like smartphones, social media, and collaboration tools, it is more important than ever for legal practitioners of all types to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of collection so that they can assist in spotting potential issues and identifying appropriate solutions.
ED102 – In the Beginning: Identification and Preservation Fundamentals
Identification and preservation are the first and most fundamental phases of an electronic discovery effort. The duty of (identification and) preservation is a foundational concept in our legal system that grows out of the common law concept of “spoliation,” which is nearly 300 years old.
ED101 – The Evolving Duty of Technology Competence
In discovery specifically, and in legal practice generally, the role of electronically-stored information (ESI) and new technology has grown exponentially over the past decade, as new sources have proliferated, new tools have become normalized, and new communication channels have supplanted the old.
Recovering Deleted WhatsApp Messages
Recovering Deleted WhatsApp Messages Introduction WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging system, was reported to be the most downloaded Android app in the world in 2018 with nearly 750 million downloads.
Raid Ready: A Case Study
Raid Ready: A Case Study By Daniel Rupprecht, Director – eDiscovery consulting, Competition & Investigations A knock on the door With substantial fines, potentially into the millions, regulatory