“Early Data Assessment” eDiscovery Services - Case and Data Analysis
Services To Support "Meet and Confer" Negotiations
1. Metadata Inventory of Potentially Relevant ESI (Electronically Stored Information)
Description of early data assessment services:
Each physical media (hard drive, CD, DVD) is processed in our lab to create a master metadata inventory of all potentially relevant ESI. Data can be queried by:
- Data source (hard drive, folder, or custodian)
- Folder names and sizes
- Document names and sizes
- Volume by document type
- Date created and last date modified
Client early data assessment benefit:
Lawyers can intelligently negotiate at the Meet and Confer by understanding the potential volume (and therefore potential cost) of including or excluding certain custodians, document types, or date ranges in the discovery order.
2. ESI "Word List"
Description of services:
A consolidated report is created of all the words (minus noise words), from all sources, and number of occurrences in the population of potentially relevant ESI for standard file types that contain embedded text. Report can be created on a "Physical media" or "All media" level.
Client benefit:
Lawyers can intelligently negotiate at the Meet and Confer by understanding the potential volume (and therefore potential cost) of including or excluding certain key words in the discovery order.
Services To Support The Early Data Assessment Budget Process
1. eDiscovery Budget Worksheet
Description of services:
The metadata inventory details can be loaded into a spreadsheet, along with standard performance data (e.g. document review production statistics) and projected billing rates and costs to provide a working eDiscovery project budget projection.
Client benefit:
Early on in the litigation, lawyers need to understand the potential volume of potentially relevant materials and the realistic costs to process and review the data in order to prepare the client for the bill, negotiate cost sharing or cost burden arguments in the Meet and Confer, and to create a better discovery production strategy.
Contact us today for a free early data assessment of your data.
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