In my previous blog post How to trim eDiscovery costs part one: Laying the
groundwork, I discussed reducing eDiscovery costs by taking the
time to set the stage before documents are exchanged. In the next
few weeks I will share some more of our practical tips in a series
of short articles. Here is Part 2 – Review fewer documents
and review efficiently.
Document review is normally the greatest expense in the
eDiscovery process. Leveraging analytics to send fewer documents to
review will reduce review time. Establishing efficient workflows
for your review team will decrease the time spent on review and
will result in a higher quality review.
1. Use conceptual analytics
Clustering the data early on can help you quickly pick out the
groups of documents that are not important and also help to locate
the important documents for prioritizing the review. Giving the
litigation team access to the clusters right away is helpful for
those lawyers who want an early high-level
