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How Mature is Your Organization in Handling eDiscovery? – eDiscovery Best Practices
 How Mature is Your Organization in Handling eDiscovery? – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

A new self-assessment resource from EDRM helps you answer that question. A few days ago, EDRM announced the release of the EDRM eDiscovery Maturity Self-Assessment Test (eMSAT-1), the “first self-assessment resource to help organizations measure their eDiscovery maturity”. Find out more about it here.

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Court Approves Use of Predictive Coding, Disagrees that it is an “Unproven Technology” – eDiscovery Case Law
 Court Approves Use of Predictive Coding, Disagrees that it is an “Unproven Technology” – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Dynamo Holdings v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Texas Tax Court Judge Ronald Buch ruled that the petitioners “may use predictive coding in responding to respondent’s discovery request” and if “after reviewing the results, respondent believes that the response to the discovery request is incomplete, he may file a motion to compel at that time”.

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Good Processing Requires a Sound Process – Best of eDiscovery Daily
 Good Processing Requires a Sound Process – Best of eDiscovery Daily 150 150 CloudNine

As we discussed Wednesday, working with electronic files in a review tool is NOT just simply a matter of loading the files and getting started. Electronic files are diverse and can represent a whole collection of issues to address in order to process them for loading. To address those issues effectively, processing requires a sound process.

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eDiscovery Blog Throwback Thursdays – How things evolved, Part 2
 eDiscovery Blog Throwback Thursdays – How things evolved, Part 2 150 150 CloudNine

So far in this blog series, we’ve taken a look at the ‘litigation support culture’ circa 1980, and we’ve covered how databases were built and used. We’ve come a long way since then, and in last week’s blog, we started discussing how things have evolved, beginning with a discussion of the use of microfilm and microfiche to store document collections. As most of you know, the next step in the evolution process was a move to storing documents as images.

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The Files are Already Electronic, How Hard Can They Be to Load? – Best of eDiscovery Daily
 The Files are Already Electronic, How Hard Can They Be to Load? – Best of eDiscovery Daily 150 150 CloudNine

Since hard copy discovery became electronic discovery, I’ve worked with a number of clients who expect that working with electronic files in a review tool is simply a matter of loading the files and getting started. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple!

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When Preparing Production Sets, Quality is Job 1 – Best of eDiscovery Daily
 When Preparing Production Sets, Quality is Job 1 – Best of eDiscovery Daily 150 150 CloudNine

Yesterday, we talked about addressing parameters of production up front to ensure that those requirements make sense and avoid foreseeable production problems well before the production step. Today, we will talk about quality control (QC) mechanisms to make sure that the production is complete and accurate. There are a number of checks that can and should be performed on the production set, prior to producing it to the requesting party. Here are some examples.

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Production is the “Ringo” of the eDiscovery Phases – Best of eDiscovery Daily
 Production is the “Ringo” of the eDiscovery Phases – Best of eDiscovery Daily 150 150 CloudNine

Most of the “press” associated with eDiscovery ranges from the “left side of the EDRM model” (i.e., Information Management, Identification, Preservation, Collection) through the stages to prepare materials for production (i.e., Processing, Review and Analysis). All of those phases lead to one inevitable stage in eDiscovery: Production. Yet, few people talk about the actual production step. If Preservation, Collection and Review are the “John”, “Paul” and “George” of the eDiscovery process, Production is “Ringo”.

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Proximity, Not Absence, Makes the Heart Grow Fonder – Best of eDiscovery Daily
 Proximity, Not Absence, Makes the Heart Grow Fonder – Best of eDiscovery Daily 150 150 CloudNine

Recently, I assisted a large corporate client where there were several searches conducted across the company’s enterprise-wide document management systems (DMS) for ESI potentially responsive to the litigation. Some of the individual searches on these systems retrieved over 200,000 files by themselves! Here is how we made those searches more precise.

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eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – How Things Evolved
 eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – How Things Evolved 150 150 CloudNine

So far in this blog series, we’ve taken a look at the ‘litigation support culture’ circa 1980, and we’ve covered how databases were built and used. We’ve come a long way since then, and in the next posts I’m going to talk a bit about how things evolved. One of the first big changes in how we worked was the use of microfilm.

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Does Size Matter? – Best of eDiscovery Daily
 Does Size Matter? – Best of eDiscovery Daily 150 150 CloudNine

I frequently get asked how big does an ESI collection need to be to benefit from eDiscovery technology. In a recent case with one of my clients, the client had a fairly small collection – only about 4 GB. But, when a judge ruled that they had to start conducting depositions in a week, they needed to review that data in a weekend. But, if you’re not facing a tight deadline, how large does your collection need to be for the use of eDiscovery technology to provide benefits?

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