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What is Ediscovery?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Electronic discovery (AKA eDiscovery/ediscovery/E-Discovery/e-Discovery) is in the more exclusive category of “Things that are both invaluable and tedious to learn/apply but necessary to stay relevant and effective professionally.”. All of this is made easier by the technology that has evolved in the ediscovery space. Ediscovery.

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Top Technology Trends for Transactional Lawyers

LawTechnologyToday

Litigation technology was born out of a need to manage the high volume of potentially responsive documents because of the shift from paper to electronic documents and communication. Electronically Stored Information (ESI) renders a 3D image of a document by introducing metadata, or data about data.

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TechReport 2022: Litigation & TAR

LawTechnologyToday

It seems vendors would be better served to focus on improving their basic review tools rather boasting about more advanced functions and analytics that may only be used by a tiny percentage of lawyers at the largest firms. Respondents were asked if they ever need to process or review electronically stored information (ESI) and 54.4%

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A Path to eDiscovery Certification

Paralegal Bootcamp

It just makes so much more sense to do it with today’s computers and technology. The federal rules talk about producing electronically stored information in a way that is usable. There have been huge strides made there with technology-assisted review.

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Directing the Course of an Investigation With Database Discovery Tactics

InHouseOps

CCBJ: Databases have been a source of electronically stored information (ESI) for some time, and discovery of structured database content is not new. The costs are linearly proportionate to the volume – the more unstructured data you add, the more human review time you need. So, what is database discovery?

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Evolving Technology Brings New Challenges, and New Solutions

InHouseOps

That’s basically you and me and really everyone who is doing their day-to-day job from home, but there’s also another aspect of that, which is the people who are tasked to collect and preserve electronically stored information (ESI) from the broader workforce. These days, we call it CAL, continuous active learning.

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Is Your Early Case Assessment Process Hurting Your Case?

InHouseOps

Fundamentally, unlike a litigation document review, where critical facts are known and issues defined, in ECA or an investigation often there is little information to go on or none at all. More often than not, legal teams struggle to execute the right strategy and tools to zero in on key information quickly.