Maximizing eDiscovery Workflow Efficiency

If you need to drive 500 miles from one city to another, which would you prefer?

     • Switching vehicles every 100 miles?
     • Or, using one vehicle for the entire trip?

The choice is obvious.  Switching cars multiple times would require stopping, moving all your belongings from one car to the another, ensuring you have enough gas in the new vehicle, understanding the new features of the car, getting your seats and mirrors in the right position, and then embarking on your trip again…only to repeat the process over and over.  This process creates wasted time, energy, and money.

Therefore, it’s clear that getting from point A to point B in a single vehicle is infinitely more efficient.

When litigation hits the discovery phase and data has been collected, there are certain steps that follow.  As you know, cases come in all sizes and vary greatly in the claims and issues within the litigation. These could range from breach of contract, employment disputes, investigations to government anti-trust matters.  However, the steps that lead to production to opposing counsel follow consistent paths.

Simply put, they are:

• Early Case Assessment – gaining a top-level understanding of the data before deciding to invest in the processes downstream.
• Data Processing/Extraction – normalizing all collected data to enable search and analysis.
• Culling – using searches and analytics to reduce the collection down to the smallest, most relevant set.
• Review – making determinations on specific documents as to relevancy, privilege and production.
• Production – providing responsive documents to opposing counsel in a unified format.

Oftentimes, legal teams will take this eDiscovery “journey” by utilizing multiple software solutions.  This is the equivalent of switching cars every 100 miles.  Not only is this inefficient, but it unnecessarily increases overall costs.  Aside from the notion that “time is money,” utilizing multiple software platforms requires multiple software licensing fees, dealing with multiple service providers and complicating the entire process.

The best way to maximize eDiscovery workflow efficiency is to perform all the steps above in a single software platform.  The problem is, there aren’t many software solutions out there that can do this.  Discovery360™ by InterLegis can.

In addition to offering an end-to-end eDiscovery platform, Discovery360 is also arguably the most cost-effective solution available today.  Not only can it ingest collected data and provide early case assessment, processing, culling, review and production capabilities, it also offers most of these tools free of charge.

Once you have culled-down your data to the smallest, most relevant data set within Discovery360, you are charged only for the data you need.  This means you don’t pay for irrelevant collected data.  Often, 80-90% of the original collection is filtered out.  With Discovery360 will dramatically slash your overall eDiscovery investment.

Discovery360 is free to install over your entire network.  It is also available as an outsourced hosted service.  In both instances, it is free to process, analyze, generate reports, and cull your data.  After a low gigabyte charge on the relevant data, everything else downstream is included (review and all productions).  Discovery360 can also export your data to any common load file format, such as DII, DAT, and CSV.

To request a free download of Discovery360, visit www.InterLegis.com.

InterLegis' "Bottom-of-the-Funnel" Pricing Model

With InterLegis' end-to-end eDiscovery solution, Discovery360, you are given a full suite of technologies at no cost.  Discovery360 can be installed for free -- on as many laptops, desktops and servers as needed. This allows you to create whatever capacity you need, whether that be 200 gigabyte or 10 terabytes. No machine fees. No user fees. And if you want the best of both worlds, you can use the same software to host your data locally or on our servers -- on a case-by-case basis. With Discovery360, you can build a powerful enterprise-wide discovery processing solution without paying a dime.

Once installed, you can load as much data as needed, process 100% of it, cull it down to what’s responsive, and generate reports on every step of the process ... all for free.  Once you've determined the data you need, you are charged a small fee for only your selected data. Once you've paid that all-inclusive fee, you get full use of our Reviewer platform, including all user access, custom index fields, reporting ... and all productions in either TIFF or native file format. Or, if you like, you can export your culled data to an industry-standard load file format for use in another review tool.  View our "bottom-of-the-funnel" pricing model below and experience Discovery, The Way It Should Be.

"Do-It-Yourself" eDiscovery

We’ve come a long way since the advent of eDiscovery.  Many years ago, all the technologies and services that cater to it were the domain of highly technical companies and their products.  For the most part, litigation support professionals relied heavily on the services of companies that either created eDiscovery technologies or sold the services around them.  But over the last few years, the gap between expert and end-user is closing.  Internal litigation support professionals and attorneys have increasingly become experts in this domain, enabling them to now perform eDiscovery workflows in-house.

Today when the time comes to send your data through the Discovery cycle, you have many options.  The size of your project will help determine if you should outsource these services or perform them in-house.

If you aren’t currently doing some of your discovery in-house, it’d be beneficial to investigate your options.  Particularly for smaller matters, there are now affordable, user-friendly tools designed to easily shepherd data through the eDiscovery process.  Included are tools that ably perform early case assessment, process all common file formats, effectively cull data, and help your team review and produce it to the other side.  With these advanced technologies, ‘do-it-yourself’ eDiscovery is quickly becoming a viable option.

By outsourcing, legal departments can leverage the depth, expertise, technical knowledge, and computer capacity of a team that does nothing but focus on eDiscovery project management.  And on many matters, particularly large or complex ones, outsourcing is an extremely viable value proposition.

However, with the right insourcing tools, legal teams can process, cull, review and produce discovery data in a fraction of the time it takes to create a Request for Proposal (RFP) in order to even begin the outsourcing process.  This approach also gives inside counsel the tools to complete their discovery objectives while saving valuable time and money.

For law firms, the right do-it-yourself technologies also help provide tremendous value to their clients.  And furthermore, since corporations are usually the entity that has the most to gain or lose in litigation, inside counsel and executives also want to be involved in the process.  In-house discovery technologies, if done correctly, allows this to happen.  They have also proven to help corporations reduce overall discovery costs.

Many firms still see value in outsourcing this work to litigation support companies in order to leverage the infrastructure, expertise, project management and data analysts provided as part of that service.  However, as collected data becomes more structured and better technologies are offered, more and more firms are finding insourcing a viable option.

Another advantage is that the ‘do-it-yourself’ eDiscovery route allows you to have complete control over your highly sensitive data – and gives peace of mind related to knowing how many people will be viewing the data and how many copies exist.  The unfortunate reality is that upwards of 95% of collected data is not relevant or responsive, and corporations find themselves unnecessarily sharing sensitive information that should have never been removed from the enterprise.  In addition, most vendor models charge to deal with that irrelevant data creating inflated costs associated with culling data to that which is most relevant.

By having the right technologies and resources in-house, both law firms and corporations can take collected data and immediately load it into their internal discovery processing, culling and review technologies.  In short, ‘do-it-yourself’ eDiscovery can greatly streamline the eDiscovery process while saving time, money, and keep you in the driver’s seat the whole way through.

InterLegis’ in-house solution, Discovery360, provides the widest range of sophisticated eDiscovery technologies in one application.  As an end-to-end discovery solution, it includes powerful analytic tools that provide a complete view of all collected data in order to intelligently cull it down to the smallest, most responsive set.  It also allows legal teams to choose – on a case-by-case basis – which matters they outsource or process in-house.  This means that legal teams can have a mix of cases hosted both internally and on InterLegis’ secure servers while accessing all within the same software.  And with its attractive, all-inclusive pricing, Discovery360 can help legal teams dramatically reduce discovery costs by paying for only what they need.

Discovery360 Desktop is available immediately and free to install. To apply for a copy of the downloadable software, contact info@interlegis.com or visit www.InterLegis.com.

Discovery360 Desktop Overview Presentation