eDiscovery Daily Blog

• July 2, 2015

As we approach our country’s independence day on Saturday, we thought we would take a look at how that relates to electronic discovery and ask this question: Do you feel like you’re frequently dependent on others to accomplish the tasks you need to complete within your discovery process?  If so, here’s some ways you can declare your eDiscovery independence!

Independence Day is more than hot dog eating contests, parades, barbecues, fireworks and re-runs of the movie Independence Day.  It’s also the recognized anniversary (the 239th this year! – can you believe it?) of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring our independence from Great Britain.

Anyway, if you’re feeling repressed and want to try something revolutionary, here are a few ideas:

• Are you tired of accepting electronically stored information (ESI) in the form that the other side wants to produce it? Declare your independence by learning your options with this useful guide from eDiscovery thought leader Craig Ball and require opposing counsel to provide data in the most useful form for you!
• Are you tired of having to fight to clawback inadvertently produced privileged materials? Declare your independence with a 502(d) order, courtesy of New York Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck (he even gives you a sample order to use!).
• Do you want to take the uncertainty out of your cost for document review? Maybe it’s time to ditch the per hour document review model for a per document approach?
• Having trouble determining how much the services from an eDiscovery provider will cost? Try asking these questions.
• Still having trouble estimating the costs of your eDiscovery project? Try one of these calculators from EDRM.
• Tired of waiting on eDiscovery vendors to return your calls or emails regarding data that you want to process and start reviewing right away? What if you could do it yourself, even at 5:00 on a Friday?  Declare your independence and check this out!

These are just a few of the ways that you can declare your independence and take control of your discovery process.  You have more independence than you think!

So, what do you think?  Do you feel like you’re frequently dependent on others to accomplish the tasks you need to complete within your discovery process?  Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

eDiscovery Daily will return on Monday.  Happy Independence Day!

Disclaimer: The views represented herein are exclusively the views of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views held by CloudNine. eDiscovery Daily is made available by CloudNine solely for educational purposes to provide general information about general eDiscovery principles and not to provide specific legal advice applicable to any particular circumstance. eDiscovery Daily should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice from a lawyer you have retained and who has agreed to represent you.