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 documents and files. Electronically stored information (ESI) that is collected for this purpose is then saved, often to an internal storage system that offers limited or no access to in-house or outside counsel other than an inventory listing what has been preserved. However 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 Early Case Assessment (ECA) was developed specifically to provide visibility into collected and preserved data prior to expensive processing or review. Counsel can access large data sets and use advanced features to assess a case’s merits, decide whether to proceed and, if so, cull the data set before active review begins reducing much of the expense associated with document review.

CaseCentral ECA can be combined with CaseCentral eDiscovery to provide an integrated solution for ECA through Review and Production for a single matter. Or it can be combined with CaseCentral Enterprise eDiscovery to manage multiple matters through a centralized legal repository. Managing multiple matters as a strategic business process, CaseCentral Total Discovery Management combines people, process and technology and engenders predictable costs and measurable processes which reduce the time, costs and risks associated with eDiscovery.

Utilizing CaseCentral’s ECA product, customers can answer the following questions:

• Who knew what and when?
• Have all relevant custodians been identified?
• What is the estimated risk for this matter and what will Discovery cost?
• What are key terms and dates to discuss in the Meet and Confer?
• If need be, how quickly can I migrate from ECA to active review?

Dynamic Concepts and Faceted Navigation present the major themes and top authors, recipients and dates within the information, without requiring any user action or searching. Users can then act on the data, culling irrelevant documents by up to 90% and pre-tagging remaining groups of documents prior to attorney review. Attorneys gain a more complete understanding of case data in less time which leads to reduced review costs and faster overall case resolution.

• Use dynamic concepts, faceted navigation and powerful visual and data analytics to assess a case’s merits, estimate Discovery costs and reduce data volumes.
• Predict costs based on historical data from real matters within the multi-matter centralized legal repository for true projections in weighing whether to litigate.
• Pre-tag documents to accelerate attorney review.
• Identify missed custodians and search terms early in the process.
• Evaluate keywords or key concepts with fully indexed data prior to meet & confer 26(f).

Perform ECA and Review in the same integrated platform to eliminate exports and imports to different systems which result in wasted time, effort and introduce opportunities for error.

• Promote data directly from ECA to active review.
• Continue to apply ECA culling even after review has begun to reduce expensive attorney time.

Maximize Efficiency & Re-use

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

CaseCentral CloudConnect replaces the traditionally cumbersome process of copying ESI to media and shipping it to a vendor or firm for processing, de-duplication and loading into an eDiscovery tool – a manual process that can often take days or weeks. Instead, with self-service CaseCentral CloudConnect, users simply select the required files to upload (images, PSTs, etc.) and the software automatically encrypts, transfers, processes, de-duplicates and loads the data per client specifications, maintaining chain of custody and creating an end-to-end process that can significantly reduce the time, risks and costs associated with a manual processes. After the data is loaded, users simply log in to the cloud-based CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform application to begin analysis, early case assessment, review and production.

Clients choosing the CaseCentral eDiscovery Connector for Symantec Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator, automate the export and transfer of ESI from existing Enterprise Vault archives into CaseCentral Early Case Assessment for analysis and eventual review and production. This automation eliminates processing and processing fees, and allows organizations to integrate internal archives with the cloud-based, centralized legal repository.