“In our experience, legal teams often ignore or avoid any data analysis. Too often, they rush into processing and review without a significant understanding of the content of their ESI. This avoidance is a disservice to clients and staff. Data analysis is an activity that yields significant cost savings to the client. With good tracking and reporting, the return on investment (ROI) can be proven in every case.
We see legal team spending on discovery increase unnecessarily when issues with ESI are uncovered too late in the e-discovery process, requiring work to become reactive instead of proactive. While remediating these issues, we find almost uniformly that time and expense of remediation could have been avoided had data analysis been performed on ESI at the beginning of the project. We find this holds true even in the smallest e-discovery matters.”
I do find it bizarre how often people in this industry take a “fire, aim” approach to eDiscovery. Go get everything and then we’ll figure out what do to with it once we start reviewing, instead of taking a long, hard, look at what we have and then deciding what’s worth reviewing.
Analytic tools are one way of figuring it out. This article does a good job of explaining how they can point us in the right direction up front, instead of after we’ve made a bunch of wrong assumptions.
The fact is that most of our organizations fail to communicate change and explain their expectations for employees, especially when they are remote. We don’t prioritize this, and then we wonder why people aren’t meeting the uncommunicated expectations and report being disengaged at work.
I think the answers are apparent.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
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Craig Ball and John Simek Craig: a simple Walmart purchased hard drive holds more data than you can imagine. 80GB is a ton of stuff, and maybe 2/3 of what is on that drive is unreadable to you, so you can’t even be sure what it says. Even then, we’ve moved way beyond that. We’re…
Technology, especially M365 technology, changes all the time. It’s vast and complicated, and things get broken when new versions are rolled out. When dealing with eDiscovery, security, privacy, etc., we have to stay on top of those changes to understand new features and ensure the old ones still work the same way.
Don’t assume the old ones will always work the same way. I can tell you from this and plenty of other experiences they often don’t.
Some interesting thoughts on how to thank people for sharing your blog posts or other content without sounding trite. I may have to start coming up with more creative ways to thank the people who share things I write. What’s the best “thank you” you’ve gotten from social media? Thank You (Yawn), For Sharing Follow…
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