Mar 19, 2019 4:13:48 PM | Marketing
I recently attended a webinar presented by EDRM and Exterro on “How to Evaluate & Improve your eDiscovery Process”. Below are some insightful key questions the presentation outlined, which should be considered if you are assessing your own eDiscovery workflows.
Topics: Tuesday's Tip, eDiscovery Solutions
A major component of eDiscovery is the exchange of documents between parties. Often times we are working within in our own jurisdictions, however there are certain cases where you may be dealing with a case in another province. Just like the rules which vary across provinces and territories, so too does the terminology that lists the documents you’ll be disclosing.
Topics: Tuesday's Tip
The terms “parent” and “child” in eDiscovery are used to identify electronic documents and their attachments. Generally speaking, this is most common with emails – the email being the parent document and the child(ren) being the attachment(s) to the email. Both the email and attachments together are referred to as a “document family”, and just like human families, they can become more complex when emails contain additional emails with attachments (sometimes referred to as grandchildren documents).
Topics: Tuesday's Tip
Padded zeros or leading zeros are the zeros at the beginning of a number. By default, when you enter this kind of number into Excel, the cell will adjust to “General” formatting and the leading zeros will be dropped. This function can create an annoyance when adding zeros in front of your numbers is needed to manipulate data, whether you’re using it to sort documents or create new numbering.
Topics: Tuesday's Tip
When going through document exchange protocols with your vendor, make sure to ask about native file processing. Native files provide major advantages in a production since they contain additional information like metadata, allow for text-searching, are more compact in file size, and preserve the overall integrity of data.
Topics: Tuesday's Tip
Converting rows to columns (or vice versa) is called transposing and it’s a feature available in our trusty old friend, Excel. There's a little trick I find particularly useful when I need to provide a report on which fields are included in a load file, or when I need to cross-check load files received from another party against the list of agreed fields on a document exchange protocol.
Topics: Tuesday's Tip
To ensure a seamless and painless exchange, it’s always best to have a document exchange protocol in place or at the very least, a discussion with opposing counsel and/or your litigation support vendors regarding the format of load files.
Topics: Tuesday's Tip
