Processing - Overview

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Processing

Processing - Overview Scoping Electronic Discovery Projects Processing Stages Tape Restoration File/Document Extraction Metadata Chain of Custody at a File Level Deduplication Data Culling Data Conversion Quality Control Reporting Requesting and Negotiating Evaluating What Has Been Received Audit and Chain of Custody Practices to Consider Copying, Fingerprinting and Analyzing Original Data Culling, Prioritizing and Triage Understanding Background to Set Priorities Planning File Analysis Review Team Factors Using Key Words for Prioritization Searching Search Techniques Culling and Searching Considerations Cost Drivers Metrics Means of Measuring Industry Benchmark Survey Paper-to-Electronic Estimate Conversion Table Additional Materials Participants

The principal objective of electronic discovery processing is to prepare relevant files for efficient and expedient review (in most instances by attorneys), production and subsequent use. Additional specific goals of processing electronic documents include:

• Capture and preserve the body of electronic documents;
• Associate document collections with particular users (custodians);
• Capture and preserve the metadata associated with the electronic files within the collections;
• Establish the parent-child relationship between the various source data files;
• Automate the identification and elimination of redundant, duplicate data with the given dataset;
• Provide a means to programmatically suppress material that is not relevant to the review based on criteria such as keywords, date ranges or other available metadata;
• Unprotect and reveal information within files; and
• Accomplish all of these goals in a manner that is both defensible with respect to clients’ legal obligations and appropriately cost-effective and expedient in the context of the matter.

People, expertise, processes, and technologies have been developed into a variety of methodologies to achieve these goals.

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