Our Insights on eDiscovery

Yesterday, we talked about the skill sets and areas of expertise that are required to effectively handle an electronic discovery project. Those skills and expertise are diverse and you won’t find everything you need in a single person. You need to put together a team. So, where do you find the right people for your team?

There are lots of tasks associated with a large electronic discovery project. A number of skill sets and areas of expertise are required to do them all well. It’s not likely that all of those skills and knowledge will reside in a single person. You need to create the right electronic discovery team to ensure that there are no glitches.

Writing procedures is easy. In fact, it’s probably the easiest writing task you’ll ever do. You don’t need to be creative. You don’t need to develop an elegant writing style. In fact, the best procedures are simple and to the point. All that’s required to write good procedures is knowledge of how to do the task and some guidelines.

Even for simple eDiscovery tasks, good written procedures are critical. Written procedures are a good idea for all tasks, but they are especially important for work done by multiple people. Often procedures are overlooked for simple tasks. It’s easy to feel comfortable that everyone will do a simple task well. The problem is that it’s very easy for two people to interpret a task differently.