“In our experience, legal teams often ignore or avoid any data analysis. Too often, they rush into processing and review without a significant understanding of the content of their ESI. This avoidance is a disservice to clients and staff. Data analysis is an activity that yields significant cost savings to the client. With good tracking and reporting, the return on investment (ROI) can be proven in every case.
We see legal team spending on discovery increase unnecessarily when issues with ESI are uncovered too late in the e-discovery process, requiring work to become reactive instead of proactive. While remediating these issues, we find almost uniformly that time and expense of remediation could have been avoided had data analysis been performed on ESI at the beginning of the project. We find this holds true even in the smallest e-discovery matters.”
I do find it bizarre how often people in this industry take a “fire, aim” approach to eDiscovery. Go get everything and then we’ll figure out what do to with it once we start reviewing, instead of taking a long, hard, look at what we have and then deciding what’s worth reviewing.
Analytic tools are one way of figuring it out. This article does a good job of explaining how they can point us in the right direction up front, instead of after we’ve made a bunch of wrong assumptions.
This is brilliant, not that we’d expect anything less from Craig Ball. How much easier would it be if every email was tagged, classified, and stored accordingly? What if no one from an organization could send an email without classifying it first? We already do things like force them to wipe metadata from attachments before…
So, if you are one of those recent college grads looking for work, I’m going to suggest you work every angle you can find, whether it be with virtual alumni groups or other connections through your educational institution, getting involved in LinkedIn groups or other professional online meeting places, or even, gasp, your parents and their friends. You’re going to need connections to people outside of your peer group to get where you want to go.
And, for the rest of us, where was the last time you had a conversation with someone who fits the description above? Don’t you think it’s time to start leading and raising up the next generation of contributors to your field? What can you do to assist with these shrinking networks for the people who need them the most?
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I found myself in a precarious position today, having to remove a redaction reason from hundreds of images in Summation. As it turns out, there is no official way to do that in the program itself, short of editing every single redaction one by one. Luckily, I was able to find the bit of text…
“The three major distinctions are:-Per Family (email + attachment) vs. Per Document Deduplication is performed on the family level, while near-duplication is performed on the document level. –Textual Analysis vs. File Analysis Near-duplicate detection uses only the text AND white space to compare documents, but deduplication uses a set of criteria based on the actual…
” We might be working longer simply because we’re so unproductive.On our mobile devices, we’re doing two damaging things constantly: Multitasking Context switching Multitasking destroys our productivity, our brains simply can’t handle it, and context switching makes us constantly lose what we were doing and restart.” This sounds about right. Even working from home without…
