Review

Put Your Data In Its Place

Once all potentially relevant sources of data has been collected and culled the discovery process moves to Native Review. The decision on how to approach native file review will severely impact the budget of the litigation, and it is the responsibility for the discovery partner to suggest the right method based on the nature of the matter, data collected, and the familiarity of the outside counsel’s document review team with the hosted solution.

Outside counsel’s billable hours are heavily invested into reviewing native files to find potentially relevant documents and to find the few ‘hot-docs’ that will impact whether or not the litigation matter will be won or lost. It is the responsibility of the discovery professional to lead the effort in minimizing resources spent on reviewing non-relevant data and to remove extraneous non-responsive documents before ever reaching outside counsel.

There are multiple ways to approach Native Review, and new technologies are being developed constantly. These options include Early Case Assessment (ECA) Tools and Native File Review which is processing all native files to extract embedded text and hash values to make keyword searchable and de-dupe based on unique ID strings.

Regardless of the desired approach, BlackStone creates custom solutions for quickly reviewing native client files. By creating a Data Analysis or ‘Snapshot’ prior to beginning processing for attorney review, this first pass of the client data allows for the formulation of discovery approaches to fit any budget and time restraints.

With the advent of technology, the rise of data generates a high volume of non-relevant information that must be reviewed in order to find the data that matters most to the case. Similar to finding a needle in a haystack, a trusted discovery partner assists counsel with isolating only potentially relevant documents.

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