Foundational eDiscovery

    There are essential processes and technologies to identify, collect, and analyze electronic data for legal purposes. It involves establishing a framework for managing electronic information, ensuring compliance with legal standards, and facilitating the discovery process in litigation or investigations.

    This includes understanding data sources, implementing data management practices, and utilizing tools for data processing and review, all aimed at efficiently handling electronic evidence while minimizing risks and costs.

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    Identification

    Traditional custodian-based eDiscovery models are increasingly misaligned with modern workplace collaboration platforms. The assumption that relevant information can be cleanly attributed to specific custodians overlooks the reality of shared conversations and documents across Microsoft Teams, Slack, and SharePoint.

    Organizations face significant challenges identifying correct custodians amid role changes, acquisitions, and scattered information across multiple systems. Effective identification is essential for protecting sensitive information, reducing regulatory exposure, and maintaining defensible data governance.

    Preservation

    Legal preservation methods struggle to keep pace with collaborative platforms where information is co-authored, hyperlinked, and shared across organizational boundaries. Manual legal hold processes using email notifications and spreadsheet tracking create administrative burdens while lacking defensibility.

    Without proper automation, organizations risk preservation failures when custodians leave, when hyperlinked files aren't captured, or when shared data crosses traditional boundaries. These gaps expose organizations to significant compliance and litigation risks.

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    Collection

    Modern collaboration tools have fundamentally changed how information is created and shared, making traditional collection methods inadequate. Critical content like contemporaneous versions of hyperlinked files is frequently missed, creating incomplete evidence and potential legal vulnerability.

    Organizations struggle with over-collection of irrelevant data, concerns about forensic soundness, and difficulties capturing the correct version of documents as they existed when accessed by custodians. These challenges require sophisticated automation to ensure defensible, targeted collection.

    Case Management

    Effective case management requires centralizing scattered information currently spread across emails, spreadsheets, and multiple stakeholders' records. Legal teams need clear timeline visibility connecting custodian activities, document interactions, and case milestones to make informed decisions.

    Without structured workflows, information requests to subject matter experts and custodians often yield incomplete responses, while static data maps quickly become outdated in organizations with changing systems and personnel. A defensible approach must integrate custodian intelligence with powerful visualization and workflow capabilities.

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    Early Data Assessment

    Early data assessment transforms initial case information into actionable intelligence by identifying critical patterns, key custodians, and potential scope before committing significant resources. Advanced data mapping and targeted collection are essential for informed strategy decisions that reduce downstream costs.

    Organizations struggle with disconnected custodian intelligence, overwhelming data volumes, and inefficient filtering methods that increase review time and costs. Without clear visibility into who has relevant information and how custodians relate to specific data sources, legal teams often overlook critical information or over-preserve irrelevant data.

    Production Validation

    Legal teams receiving productions in discovery face significant challenges validating completeness and usability before it's too late to remedy with supplemental requests. Modern collaboration tools favor hyperlinks over traditional attachments, yet these linked documents are frequently omitted from productions.

    Format errors in load files prevent proper ingestion into review platforms, while missing content creates critical gaps in evidence timelines. Immediate validation of received productions is essential for identifying missing hyperlinked documents, detecting load file issues, and securing complete evidence before discovery closes.

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