A trial always follows the same rhythm: Someone files a Complaint, the defendant Answers that Complaint, and then the two parties start Discovery – a process in which the plaintiff and the defendant ask each other questions under oath and exchange information. That’s where we at Datamine Discovery come in.
Most information is electronic these days (long gone are the days when boxes upon boxes of documents would be delivered to opposing counsel in an effort to drown them in paper). In order to present that data to the Court, someone needs to collect, process, and produce it in a manner recognized by the legal system. The point of an eDiscovery consultant is to produce that information with one platform for ease of review as opposed to hundreds of different applications opening hundreds of different documents.
This is where we get to the actual review of these documents, which luckily is more streamlined than during the days of paper Discovery. Once data has been collected and processed, attorneys must review everything in the database in order to build their case narrative. If your database has half a million documents, what do you do?
You can hire somebody to help for less than the cost of an associate or a paralegal doing the review. That’s where the “managed” in “managed document review” comes from. Not only could you cull documents with the help of artificial intelligence models (for instance, identifying responsive or privileged documents), but you could also hire our partners at Quislex. No job is too big or too small for their dedicated team of full-time staff and project-based attorneys. Their headquarters are configured for legal services and offer 24/7 live CCTV monitoring, a biometric access control system, and physically segregated project areas, along with separate project networks and controlled access to email, internet, external media, and printing. This protects the sensitive information entrusted to them by attorneys all over the world.
Quislex offers complex issue coding, coding for multidistrict litigation and joint defense groups, search term analysis, redactions, and reviews in multiple languages. They can also create and review privilege logs, conduct post-review fact analysis, and provide audit trails and defensibility analyses.
Cases are won and lost in Legal Discovery
Cases are won and lost in Discovery. Technically, you could always review the documents yourself. That is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. However, if you would like to avoid sheer overwhelm or if you simply don’t have the time or resources, we can help. If you don’t find that one specific document, you won’t get that smoking gun, and you also might miss your own Achilles’ heel. Stay on top of your managed document review and contact us today for assistance.
