Early Case Assessment

CaseCentral Early Case Assessment Datasheet

Once a company reasonably anticipates a lawsuit, it has a duty to preserve all data related to the suit. Companies go through an exercise to identify, collect and preserve potentially relevant files. Identified electronically stored information (ESI) is then copied, usually to internal file shares often with limited or no access for in-house or outside counsel other than an inventory listing what has been preserved. But such data has enormous value early in discovery prior to review, in assessing a case’s merits, potential liabilities, data volumes and associated costs. 

CaseCentral’s cloud-based Early Case Assessment addresses these needs by making the collected data accessible and searchable online prior to expensive processing and review. This approach eliminates IT's needs to build out a preservation infrastructure and solves legal’s need for access. Attorneys can formulate strategies, perform analysis, evaluate keywords and cut out not relevant data reducing data sets easily. And if a case goes forward, attorneys can quickly move just the selected subsets into active review within the integrated CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform.

Identifying What is Relevant

CaseCentral Early Case Assessment allows for analysis prior to expensive processing and review. Features include:
Accessible Data drives key capabilities integral to efficient case management, even before review has begun. Collaborate with outside counsel earlier to:

• Investigate merits of case
• Assess risk by analyzing data
• Estimate costs for full discovery

Actionable Environment allows for counsel to identify relevant data and reduce volumes:

• Evaluate keywords or key concepts with fully indexed data prior to meet & confer 26(f)
• Cull documents easily by keyword, date or virtually any other criteria
• Classify documents by potential treatment (aka: potentially privilege)  prior to review

Private cloud, SaaS delivery model allows law firms and corporations to collaborate in a low-cost, high-data volume environment securely. And risk is reduced, as backup and recovery for all data is applied universally by professionals trained in dealing with discovery.

• Collaborate with confidence outside the firewall
• Scale to terabytes on-demand, and ramp down just as quickly
• Almost no IT requirements for support or infrastructure
• World class security far exceeds most firms and meets the scrutiny of F100 companies

Simple migration to active review through the integrated CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform. Simply select the culled subset and copy into active review.

• Search terms refined in ECA appear highlighted in review, and can even be further refined if a certain term is found to yield little relevant data
• Use the CaseCentral eDiscovery Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator to automate the export and transfer of data from the corporate archive to CaseCentral, eliminating the need for processing and associated fees

When clients choose CaseCentral Early Case Assessment in conjunction with CaseCentral eDiscovery or CaseCentral Enterprise eDiscovery, they choose a truly integrated approach to Preservation and Review through Production.

Minimize review costs and data sets, maximize review efficiency and re-use