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.