Overcoming E-Discovery Challenges
E-Discovery is a complex challenge in the present corporate litigation landscape. Locating, consolidating, processing, and reviewing an ever-growing volume of electronic information can be a nightmare for organizations and attorneys. Furthermore, accomplishing this within court-defined deadlines can be a formidable task. As a result, significant efforts are being made to identify different means of reducing the time, efforts and costs involved in e-discovery, while also producing accurate and timely information.
There is however a significant number of challenges which need to be overcome in order to make e-discovery processes more efficient:
1. Identifying and Collecting Relevant Documents: E-Discovery processes require the identification and collection of pertinent documents, which is a major challenge on its own given the huge volume of electronic data that needs to be considered. Often, over-collection of documents may result in gathering files which are irrelevant to the case. This is a major challenge that e-discovery solutions are trying to address. By shrinking the document population that is sent for review and speeding up the review process, e-discovery tools, such as litigation support software, can help in dealing with this challenge effectively.
2. Streamlining Collected Data: Once relevant documents have been collected, they have to be rapidly analyzed and quickly culled down to relevant ESI (Electronically Stored Information). But with ever-expanding e-discovery workloads, this is even harder to achieve. Also, performing rapid reviews is critical in today’s corporate litigation process. Electronic discovery software can help address these issues by offering the means to intelligently cull data, reduce irrelevant documents and accelerate the analysis and review of ESI.
3. Achieving Collaboration: Often legal and IT departments find it difficult to collaborate due to the proliferation of multiple tools in various stages of the e-discovery process. This causes significant delays in early case assessment and increases the risk of choosing the wrong case strategies. E-discovery solutions cater to this need for collaboration by standardizing processes and consolidating them on a single application, thereby eliminating the need to move data to multiple disparate tools.
4. Accelerating Processes Versus Reducing Costs: Organizations are under constant pressure to reduce e-discovery costs while also speeding up document collection and review processes. And with electronically stored data mounting steadily, this is not easy to accomplish. E-discovery software platforms aim to address this concern by offering cost-effective yet efficient solutions that can significantly accelerate data collection and review processes.
Business communication is now dominated by the digital exchange of information, and therefore the law makes it mandatory to take ESI into consideration in the event of litigation. While this means that attorneys have to overcome issues in dealing with electronic discovery, organizations also have to streamline processes to ensure that systematic data storage can be facilitated by timely retrieval.
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