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A Project Management Approach to eDiscovery
Clients, law firms and consultants can use project management principles to streamline digital information-gathering efforts and minimize costly coordination issues and missed deadlines. Here is a basic framework and key tools for building and honing an effective end-to-end eDiscovery project.
Litigating a case is a complex process to manage, and the discovery phase, when viewed as a related subproject, adds additional layers of intricacy that make its management even more difficult. This is due to the large and disparate set of stakeholders involved and the numerous technical challenges that must be evaluated.
According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, 58 percent of all new corporate data consists of digital content and unstructured data, and this figure is expected to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 96 percent through 2010. Electronically Stored Information (ESI) collected for the average litigation discovery project includes more than 300GB of data from more than 100 custodians and more than 700 file types from source systems such as PCs, PDAs, phones, storage tape and stored enterprise data.
This electronic data is subject to a variety of state, national and international legal and compliance demands, all of which have led to electronic discovery (eDiscovery) becoming a significant facet of the discovery phase. Despite a high degree of …
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