The last few years have seen the acceptance of early data assessment tools designed to reduce the volume of data that is collected, processed, reviewed, and ultimately produced. Subsequent successes in this area have led to wide, mainstream usage and their adoption continues to reduce costs in the most expensive segment of the process, document review.
These technologies prioritize documents based upon trained relevance ratings and allow lawyers to estimate the value of those documents and organize them in a way that optimizes the review process, while simultaneously giving the case team early access to key information. These applications represent one of the most transformative trends in e-discovery technology. Whether you are responding to a second request or reviewing documents for litigation, you should make it a point to familiarize yourself with what is happening in this area.
The past 12 to 18 months have been a time of gaining confidence in the use of these new technologies, but 2011 will be the year in which their utilization will become more prolific in the legal community. These software applications not only provide a way of substantively assessing the collected material by identifying which documents are most likely to be responsive and relevant to a case (and correspondingly, identifying more likely non-responsive material), but they can also provide the means to structure the review workflow in order to maximize benefits.
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Source: law.com
By: Mary Ann Benson and Chris Janak
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