eDI's Review Automation helped its legal client refine its document collection by eliminating vast amounts of irrelevant documents, and organizing the remaining review set according to relevance rankings.

CASE STUDY

A law firm client understands that the process of reviewing electronic data presents a variety of challenges, and that making review process decisions in a timely manner is critical to guiding the course of a lawsuit.  The firm's primary objective in improving the timeliness of its review is acquiring the ability to deliver the most relevant documents to the lead project team in days rather than weeks.  This allows its attorneys to begin building their case as quickly as possible.

Having identified the desired outcome, the firm seeks to select a review platform with the technical tools and features that will optimize its ability to reach this objective, as well as its common goals of controlling litigation costs and managing volumes of ESI.

THE eDI SOLUTION

In response, eDI supplies its Review Automation process for automatically prioritizing the firm's entire document collection by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant material.

Expert-Guided Analysis
Utilizing a pre-review expert analysis of a sample set of project documents, eDI's Keyword Relevancy process enables the automatic prioritization of the firm's entire document collection through the use of statistical and self-learning techniques.  In addition, a high-relevance keyword list is created for targeting relevant docs.  These automatically-generated keywords supplement and enhance the manual list of keywords built by the legal team, facilitating the rapid assessment of the key issues and concepts in a case.

Collection Manageability
As an integral element involved in streamlining the assessment and review processes, Review Automation vastly reduces the amount of overall data that will require proper review by eliminating the irrelevant material.   Utilizing the Review Automation process enables the firm to simplify the handling of large amounts of electronic documents, while providing an overall understanding of the document set and the ability to easily locate key documents.

CASE RESULT

Refining its document collection by eliminating vast amounts of irrelevant documents, and organizing the remaining review set according to relevance rankings allows the firm's attorneys to focus immediately on the most relevant documents.  This proactive approach realizes substantial savings in time and cost for the firm by enabling it to avoid potentially hundreds of hours of manual review.