Managing Your E-discovery Process
One of the keys to reducing cost and risk in producing ESI is to effectively manage your process and achieve consistency in production. 65% of the cost of e-discovery is attorney review. Controlling the quantity of data available for discovery and setting appropriate parameters for culling it saves money. Those are most effectively done in-house. Tracking metrics in the production of ESI — i.e. how much does it cost to produce a gigabyte of data? – allows you to budget better and evaluate litigation at the outset. Having multiple law firms to manage e-discovery for each individual action they handle precludes you from taking advantage of economies of scale in working with outside vendors, and achieving consistency in your process.
For organizations that do not have the resources to effectively manage the process internally, ESI Attorneys can help. Keeping up with the developments in the law of electronic discovery, the changes in technology, and how the two fit together is a full time job. We can assist in both managing the process internally and work with outside counsel to ensure consistency in preserving, gathering and producing ESI. As your e-discovery counsel, we work directly with you and your outside counsel from the outset of litigation to identify an appropriate strategy and process for dealing with the preservation, collection, review and production of ESI that maximizes your position, while reducing costs and the risk of spoliation.
Our litigators are experienced with every aspect of the discovery process, as well as the technologies designed to manage ESI. Typically, our clients retain us to help them set up their process and to “be on call” as e-discovery issues arise where they need input. This arrangement allows us to keep on top of the developments and trends in e-discovery and relay them to our clients in the context of their business.
