Early Case Assessment Tools and its Importance

Early case assessment tools enable service providers to help customers cut the amount of data subject to expensive review and analysis during e-discovery.
The increased legal burden introduced by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is driving your customers to improve their legal risk management practices to contain costs related to e-discovery. Early case assessment (ECA) tools can support this goal, and storage service providers have a good opportunity to gain e-discovery business by selling and servicing early case assessment tools
For those involved in e-discovery, there are best practices to guide the process. The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) lays out the phases of an e-discovery project. Two phases of the EDRM model -- review and analysis -- consume much of the e-discovery budget at companies involved in litigation. These two phases require specialized software and attorney interaction, work that's best left to companies such as Stratify Inc. or your customer's legal department.
So where do service providers fit into this equation? You can add value to the e-discovery process by reducing the amount of data that needs to undergo review and analysis. ECA tools are the mechanism to cut the amount of data to be reviewed.
Early case assessment can reduce legal risk exposure by offering a necessary view of the legal case information. Contact ediscovery solutions or ediscovery companies for more info.

eDiscovery the need of the hour

Wake-up call regarding digital data is one that we have been hearing for at least a decade. But its increasing relevance to litigation and electronic discovery is something new for any organization’s general counsel. With the significant changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that went into effect December 2006 and subsequent change to the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), taking control of e-Discovery has become a truly urgent concern. These changes have dramatically impacted the way all companies manage legal discovery and the enormous volume of digital data it encompasses.

E-Discovery solutions is all about managing electronically stored information (ESI). Managing ESI is an enterprise-wide activity that requires uniform records management policies and the technology infrastructure to automate and enforce them. There were plenty of compelling reasons to develop these policies and infrastructure before the FRCP changes. But now it is imperative because the cost and risk to your company of failure to do so is enormous.

e-Discovery management enables corporations to apply the principles of process efficiency to every stage of discovery— making it a repeatable business process. A repeatable business process is reasonable and defensible, which is exactly what companies need to be compliant with FRCP guidelines. Beyond FRCP compliance, e-Discovery management also reduces the costs of e-Discovery, minimizes its disruptive impact to an organization’s core business, boosts responsiveness, and reduces the risk of inadvertent production.