Abby Rosenbloom and I decided to write a series of articles together related to the infamous world of managing a document review. There are no standards. There are best practices. There are personal preferences. There are lessons learned. I have known Abby for over 15 years. We have worked in different roles within the industry,…
The overall goal for a document review is for the document categorization to be as accurate/consistent as possible and for the review to be completed in a timely fashion. As a litigation support professional, one of my favorite project management tasks is managing a large document review. Designing an efficient workflow and process is key,…
Abby Rosenbloom and I decided to write a series of articles together related to the infamous world of managing a document review. There are no standards. There are best practices. There are personal preferences. There are lessons learned. I have known Abby for over 15 years. We have worked in different roles within the industry,…
One of the best practices in Legal Project Management (LPM) is demonstrating to the legal teams how we techies can add value. We were having a team meeting related to a case that had a large document database in Relativity. The legal team had several concurrent sub-projects for this matter. The attorneys were teamed up to resolve…
One of the terms we use in litigation support is “coding”. Coding refers to putting information into database fields (which we refer to as “populating”) manually, one document at a time. There are some service providers that provide this service. They have a room full of “coders”. We pay them per document to complete the…
When collecting documents in a litigation case, there can be electronic documents as well as hardcopy documents. Most of the time the hardcopy documents will be sent to a vendor to scan into a TIFF format that can easily be added to a document review database. The hardcopy documents will most likely include staples, paper…
Many litigation support professionals are processing electronic discovery at a service provider (or in-house) and then loading the data into a Concordance database. When an attorney begins to review the documents, one of the first things they want to do is sort the documents in date order. If they simply sort the entire database on…
Even though there is a large focus on electronic discovery in the litigation support industry, we can’t forget about the hardcopy documents that are collected during the discovery process. We usually end up scanning and OCRing the hardcopy documents and then loading the corresponding data into a review database. The attorneys can then search the OCR text and view…
In working with people new to electronic discovery, one of my favorite questions I always get asked is “what is an e-mail family?” When I hear the question, I chuckle and realize (once again) that it has been so long since I first started using the term that I don’t think much about it when…
There are many terms that we use when working with electronic discovery. This term relates to the e-mail data. A conversation that takes place within an e-mail application is referred to as an “e-mail chain” or an “e-mail string” or an “e-mail thread”. The very first e-mail in a conversation is the beginning of the…
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