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Effective Document Review
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Effective eDiscovery Document Review Guidebook
Effective eDiscovery Document Review Guidebook 1000 600 Michael Beumer

This free guide is full of best-practice tips for reviewing electronic evidence, protecting privilege and winning ediscovery. Before we get into the tactics and strategy of modern document review, it is important to remember the exact purpose of the review phase in discovery. According to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26, any party may…

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eDiscovery Document-Review-Responsive
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eDiscovery Document Review: Getting Results
eDiscovery Document Review: Getting Results 1000 657 Michael Beumer

DOC REVIEW Part III: Finding Responsive Documents in Your Evidence If you’ve read part one and two of our three-part Document Review series, you can understand why the review process is the most time consuming, error prone, and costly part of eDiscovery. However, it is also the most important and potentially rewarding phase. It’s the…

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eDiscovery Document Review: Search & Privilege
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eDiscovery Document Review: Searching for Success
eDiscovery Document Review: Searching for Success 1000 667 Michael Beumer

DOC REVIEW PART II: Organizing Your Evidence & Protecting Privilege Before we get too deep into our three part series on Document Review, let’s ask, why is document review even necessary? According to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26, any party may obtain discovery regarding any non-privileged information that is relevant to a legal…

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Organize eDiscovery data
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eDiscovery Organization & Insight: Introducing Folder Categories
eDiscovery Organization & Insight: Introducing Folder Categories 1303 597 Michael Beumer

If you’ve been reading our three-part blog series on document review, you know that the ultimate goal of ediscovery is not just to search, find, and present relevant documents. ediscovery is about organizing and making sense of an otherwise disorganized collection of evidence.   We’re excited to unveil our completed redesign that delivers more powerful…

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eDiscovery Document Review Strategy
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eDiscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle
eDiscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle 1000 667 Michael Beumer

DOCUMENT REVIEW SERIES / PART ONE When most people think about ediscovery, they probably imagine a lawyer staring intently at a computer screen, hoping to find an incriminating document in a massive database of collected files. If that is your mental image, what you are picturing is the document review phase of ediscovery. However, if…

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cloud-based ediscovery software
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Cloud-Based eDiscovery Software: A Migration Success Story
Cloud-Based eDiscovery Software: A Migration Success Story 1000 668 Michael Beumer

Cloud-Based eDiscovery Software to the Rescue Foley & Mansfield, a national law firm based in Minneapolis, had been using a legacy, on-premise eDiscovery platform for over a decade. When the vendor notified Foley & Mansfield that they were sunsetting their product, Amy Koski, Foley’s Litigation Support Services Manager, gained approval to identify and move to…

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Data Filtering Techniques
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Advanced eDiscovery Data Filtering Techniques
Advanced eDiscovery Data Filtering Techniques 1200 630 Michael Beumer

FILTERING SERIES / PART THREE eDiscovery processing is an often overlooked phase of litigation because it is considered a technical, not a legal practice. However, lawyers who understand processing and advanced data filtering techniques are in position to control the costs and control the scope of any matter.   eDiscovery Data Filtering In Three Parts…

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eDiscovery Keyword Filtering
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Filter by Keyword in eDiscovery: The Human Role
Filter by Keyword in eDiscovery: The Human Role 1200 660 Michael Beumer

FILTERING SERIES / PART TWO eDiscovery is automated in many important ways, but attorney judgment is still vital to the process. Legal teams need to make smart decisions up front about how to filter, what to cull, and what to keep. If you are too cautious about processing, you will have too much evidence to…

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Data Filteringe in Discovery
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The Art of eDiscovery Data Filtering and Culling
The Art of eDiscovery Data Filtering and Culling 1200 801 Michael Beumer

DATA FILTERING SERIES / PART ONE Every lawyer wants a smoking gun email, text, or Facebook post that will decidedly win a case or force a settlement. Given the mind-boggling volume of electronic data flooding our world, finding relevant, discoverable information is a more difficult and expensive endeavor. But, if you are strategic about eDiscovery…

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Billing for Ediscovery - Pass Through
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Billing for Ediscovery: Fully Recover Costs and Meet ABA Ethical Standards
Billing for Ediscovery: Fully Recover Costs and Meet ABA Ethical Standards 1000 625 Michael Beumer

Clearly, eDiscovery software is indispensable in modern, internet-era civil litigation. Attorneys are under increasing pressure to invest in legal technology in order to provide effective counsel to their clients. Additionally, in recent years the majority of state bars have modified their guidelines related to an attorney’s duty of competence to include not only substantive knowledge…

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