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Quality Checking the Review
The Quality Check (QC) process should begin after a first pass review of the documents has been completed. The QC team should consist of reviewers and project managers that have demonstrated a high level of understanding about the case and documents. Although the QC process will be different for each case, there are some general steps that […]
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Clawback – Trick or Treat
Many litigators do not employ the clawback trick. You just have to take a look at the circumstances surrounding J-M Manufacturing Company, Inc v. McDermott Will & Emery to bolster this point. Now, this may be the case because the clawback provisions appear in the Federal Rules of Evidence, rather than the Federal Rules of […]
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An emerging issue in the business of eD is the use contract review teams by law firms for large projects, and the need for lawyers to supervise those teams to prevent the inadvertent disclosure of privileged information. Quite frankly, the standards for that supervision has been imprecise. This issue has increased in notoriety due to […]
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Errors
A recent eDiscovery Errors Survey reveals that technology has not solved the challenges posed by electronically stored information (ESI). In fact, technology is at the base of most of the mistakes that are made. Lawyers and litigation support professionals were the subject of the survey to identify areas where their organizations experienced the most pain in terms of […]
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You Get What You Deserve
I have discovered that at the center of every successful project is some form of trust. According to Stephen M. Covey, author of the book Speed of Trust ”[m]ost people don’t know how to think about the organizational and societal consequences of low trust because they don’t know how to quantify or measure the costs of such a […]
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