Ediscovery

eDiscovery and Document Review: Search & Privilege
  • Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Document Review: Structure Your Review for Success
Ediscovery Document Review: Structure Your Review for Success 1200 700 Michael Beumer

EDISCOVERY AND DOCUMENT REVIEW PART II: Organizing Your Evidence & Protecting Privilege Before we get too deep into our three part series on Protecting Privilege during Document Review, let’s ask, why is document review even necessary? According to to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, any party may obtain discovery regarding any…

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eDiscovery Document Review Strategy
  • Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle
Ediscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle 1200 700 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 process in ediscovery. However, if…

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  • Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Data Migration at Law Firms: A Modern Success Story
Ediscovery Data Migration at Law Firms: A Modern Success Story 1201 628 Michael Beumer

This law firm had decades of legacy data from ediscovery and other litigation matters. Here’s how they conducted a successful ediscovery data migration for their move to the cloud with Nextpoint. Big Data in Ediscovery: Cloud to the Rescue Foley & Mansfield, a national law firm based in Minneapolis, had been using a legacy, on-premise…

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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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Ediscovery Software Costs
  • Michael Beumer

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

Ediscovery software is indispensable in modern, internet-era civil litigation. Here’s how you can recover ediscovery software costs. 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…

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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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law firm case study

Law Firm Case Study: Cost Predictability in Ediscovery
Law Firm Case Study: Cost Predictability in Ediscovery 1000 563 Annie Johnson

Ediscovery Case Study Palmersheim & Mathew LLP was founded in 2018 by award-winning attorneys with proven expertise in handling complex business disputes. I recently sat down to speak with founding partner Anand Mathew in their Chicago office. In this ediscovery case study, we discussed what it means to practice in the boutique environment, the high-touch…

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Ediscovery Software Pricing - No Data Charges
  • Rakesh Madhava

Ediscovery Pricing Models: The End of Data Charges
Ediscovery Pricing Models: The End of Data Charges 1000 558 Rakesh Madhava

Ediscovery Pricing Models Have Changed Our drive for simpler, transparent invoicing wound up inspiring us to eliminate data charges in ediscovery software. Let’s just say, our clients were stoked. Data-volume has long been the default measuring stick for ediscovery software pricing models. The gigabyte (GB) of electronically stored information is data’s defining unit of measure.…

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