Catelas Early Case Assessment Trap

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Copyright © 2011 Catelas Inc. All rights reserved Early Case Assessment Trap- Legal eDiscovery Legal Early Case Assessment could be costing you money! Anticipated Discovery Cost $3M 2. Early Case Assessment: how much will discovery cost? 3. Opposing council uses anticipated discovery costs as leverage to inflate the settlement figure $2.5 M 1. Pending litigation $0.5M Possible settlement? Don’t get caught in the Early Case Assessment trap!

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Copyright © 2011 Catelas Inc. All rights reserved Early Case Assessment Trap- Legal

eDiscovery Legal

Early Case Assessment could be costing you money!

Anticipated Discovery Cost

$3M

2. Early Case Assessment: how much will discovery cost?

3. Opposing council uses anticipated discovery costs as leverage to inflate the settlement figure

$2.5M

1. Pending litigation $0.5MPossible settlement?

Don’t get caught in the Early Case Assessment trap!

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How do you get out of the ECA trap?

3. Opposing council uses anticipated discovery costs as leverage to inflate the settlement figure

$0.5M

Anticipated Discovery Cost

$0.75M

2. Early Case Assessment: how much will discovery cost?

$0.5MPossible settlement?

Defensibly reduce discovery costs by 75% … saving $2M in settlement

1. Defensibly limit the scope of discovery to only the relevant custodians