Collection

ediscovery collection best practices: dangers of self-collection

Don’t Let Self-Collection Spiral Into Self-Destruction: The Potential Pitfalls and Risks When Clients Collect their Own Data
Don’t Let Self-Collection Spiral Into Self-Destruction: The Potential Pitfalls and Risks When Clients Collect their Own Data 1200 700 Elizabeth Guthrie

Read these ediscovery collection best practices to learn why self-collection – or allowing clients to collect their own data – is dangerous. Picture this: it’s 1988 and you’re at your desk, poring over a veritable encyclopedia of case law. You just sent your paralegal to collect an official notice from the judge in your latest…

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The Tactical Ediscovery Data Processing Workflow That Streamlines Document Review
The Tactical Ediscovery Data Processing Workflow That Streamlines Document Review 4798 2801 Elizabeth Guthrie

This ediscovery processing workflow lays out four steps that will help you reduce the volume of discovery data and streamline document review. Between collecting & preserving electronically stored information (ESI) and reviewing & producing it, many people regrettably overlook the critical steps involved in processing the data. If you’re tempted to remain oblivious to the…

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Ediscovery Collection Checklist

Ediscovery Planning: Your Data Collection Checklist
Ediscovery Planning: Your Data Collection Checklist 1200 800 Elizabeth Guthrie

This ediscovery collection checklist will guide you through the technical complexities of data collection and help your team stay organized and efficient. The Importance of a Collection Strategy Data collection can be the most complex and technically rigorous of all discovery phases. It involves the extraction of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) from its…

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BDR Appreciation Week: Meet the Nextpoint Team
BDR Appreciation Week: Meet the Nextpoint Team 1000 668 Elizabeth Guthrie

The Nextpoint BDRs are the first folks you’ll meet as you learn why so many choose Nextpoint for their eLaw software needs. February 21st kicks off BDR Appreciation Week, so we sat down for a Q&A with our team of Business Development Representatives. We appreciate all the work they do to spread the word on…

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Construction Law: A Nextpoint Case Study

Bringing Order to the Complexity of Construction Litigation
Bringing Order to the Complexity of Construction Litigation 1200 631 Elizabeth Guthrie

When opposing counsel on a large, multi-million dollar construction law case filed a Motion to Compel in the state court against Foles & Hill PLC (“Foles”)*, a 35+ attorney law firm with five offices in the Midwest, Paul Reinhardt* recognized the predicament his team now faced. Paul had joined Foles as an Associate the previous…

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Litigation Services: Meet the Nextpoint Team
  • Connor Jenkins

Meet Our Highly-Rated Ediscovery & Litigation ‘Nextperts’
Meet Our Highly-Rated Ediscovery & Litigation ‘Nextperts’ 1000 600 Connor Jenkins

Our data strategy team makes your mountains into molehills with expert ediscovery and litigation services. Our mission is to not only provide you with intuitive, easy-to-use ediscovery & litigation software, but also advisory technical services if and when you need them. We’re client-centric, and everything we do – from our broad range of litigation services…

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Advanced Ediscovery Data Filtering Techniques
  • Michael Beumer

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 ediscovery data filtering techniques are in a position to control the costs and scope of any matter. Advanced Ediscovery Data Filtering In Three Parts…

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eDiscovery Keyword Filtering
  • Michael Beumer

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

DATA 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 by keyword, what to cull, and what to keep. If you are too cautious about processing, you will have too…

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Data Culling in Ediscovery
  • Michael Beumer

The Art of Ediscovery Data Filtering and Culling
The Art of Ediscovery Data Filtering and Culling 1200 801 Michael Beumer

DATA FILTERING AND CULLING 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…

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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Ediscovery
  • Michael Beumer

Essential Ediscovery Planning: The Federal Rules You Need To Know
Essential Ediscovery Planning: The Federal Rules You Need To Know 1000 667 Michael Beumer

The adversarial nature of the system of law in the United States is not about cooperation and playing nice. Law schools train lawyers to crush their opposition. But in ediscovery, the updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and emerging case law not only make it possible for discovery to be a cooperative process, but if…

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