CASE STUDY

A corporation is regularly involved in reviewing data sets for litigation matters. As the corporation continues to experience the rapid growth of electronically stored information (ESI), document review for litigation has become a time consuming and costly endeavor. A substantial portion of the corporation's overall cost of discovery is directly related to the number of documents it has to review.

The corporation seeks to apply today's economies of scale to its eDiscovery process; it places its highest priority on reducing cost, without sacrificing the quality and thoroughness of its efforts. Focusing on the review stage, the corporation seeks to invest in an eDiscovery strategy that will enhance its ability to handle the growing volume of data, while simultaneously streamlining its review process. The primary factor the corporation is considering in selecting the appropriate platform for eDiscovery review is the potential cost savings that can be gained through the tools and features that the platform offers.

THE eDI SOLUTION

To help the corporation meet its cost reduction and review management goals, eDI provides its Review Automation solution in a SaaS environment- a unique and unprecedented collection of technology-improving features and advanced tools designed to meet the challenges of the corporation's demanding eDiscovery review process. eDI's Review Automation solution enables the corporation to streamline its review tasks into a proactive, automated, and repeatable process by offering multiple advantages:

Maximizing Review Efficiency

Refining review sets to exclude irrelevant data, as well as the automation of many review procedures, vastly increases the overall efficiency of the corporation's review process by dramatically cutting the time and hourly costs of individual document review. In doing so, the corporation realizes substantial savings in the overall cost of discovery and litigation.

• Reduced Volumes - Utilizing a pre-review expert analysis of a sample set of project documents, eDI's Keyword Relevancy process facilitates the automatic prioritization of an entire document collection, enabling the corporation to quickly create a more focused data set by targeting relevant documents. The document prioritization achieved across the collection vastly reduces the amount of irrelevant data that will require proper review, eliminating the cost to review excess data.
• Automatic Document Organization - eDI applies a flexible rules-based document organization service used to automatically group documents in batches for review or data analytics.
• Review Workflow Automation - The eDI workflow engine is set up on the corporation's review databases to trigger document routing from one folder (or Tag) to another, automating the movement of these documents to make the process as seamless as possible.
• Review Validation - eDI sets up an automated process to validate the documents that have been reviewed in the corporation's databases, subsequently flagging and foldering any inconsistencies in the data set.
• eDI Review Reporting Engine - As part of eDI's Review Automation solution, the corporation can utilize eDI's database reporting service, which can be connected to virtually any review platform. This highly flexible and customizable reporting engine generates detailed and timely database stats, providing a fuller understanding of all aspects of review to the database users.

Maintaining Control with Discovery Integrator

eDI also provides the corporation with a specialized project management platform - Discovery Integrator - that allows the corporation to effectively manage multiple projects, without the need to expand internal resources.

Discovery Integrator is eDI's custom Web-based navigation site. The secure and adaptable Discovery Integrator platform provides the corporation with the highly interactive ability to manage all aspects of its projects, including: project creation, process management, vendor management, issue tracking, user account management, and review-team management. Discovery Integrator provides the corporation with a central focal point from which it can manage the entire scope of its projects, from high-level overviews down to item-level detail.

Because every project is different and requires different information to be captured, Discovery Integrator has been designed to be customized. This customization allows the corporation to develop best practices on a client-specific or enterprise-wide basis. This leads to predictable and consistent results from project to project, as well as the generation of tremendous cost savings.