Reducing the burden of incoming discovery review

Incoming discovery and disclosure from other parties can far outweigh that which you produce to them. Even if your productions are similar in size, it is important that you can efficiently and effectively navigate the documents provided to you by other parties so that you may advise your client and begin your preparations for a final hearing. Your eDiscovery partner can assist you with some methods that help to reduce the burden of reviewing these documents.

Consider

• Limiting your discovery obligations to reduce the burden on all stakeholders including lawyers, clients, and the Court. The reduction could be achieved with reference to key dates, words, categories, or stakeholders.

• Using advanced searching methodologies and criteria to identify documents that are more likely to be ones that you haven’t reviewed as a part of your client’s discovery/disclosure review.

• Leveraging analytics tools that could assist to reduce or sort incoming discovery for more efficient review. Threading email conversations, grouping near-duplicates or using continuous active learning are all options that increase the speed with which incoming discovery is reviewed.