The Bar Association of the City of Richmond

Continuing Legal Education Seminars 2009 – 2010

“E-Discovery for Small and Mid-Sized Firms”

Defining a Legal Strategy ….

The Value in Early Case Assessment

Presented by

Aubrey L. Owens, Jr.

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Aubrey L. Owens, Jr.

October 14, 2009

Defining a Legal Strategy …. The Value in Early Case Assessment

Electronic Discovery Reference Model www.edrm.net

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Superior Document Services utilizes the Industries Best Practice Methods illustrated above in our Litigation Lifecycle Management process.

VOLUME RELEVANCE

Defining a Legal Strategy …. The Value in Early Case Assessment

Identification of Evidence

•Custodian Interview•Custodian Interview

•Data Mapping

•eScoping

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Defining a Legal Strategy …. The Value in Early Case Assessment

Preservation and

Collection of Evidence

•Forensic Preservation and Collection

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•Active Preservation and Collection

•Network Appliance Preservation

and Collection

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Search & Analysis

of Evidence

•De-duplication

•Proximity Filter

•Keyword Generation

and Analysis

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Relevance Review

of Evidence

•Latent Semantic

•Categorization

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•Categorization

•Conceptual

•Clustering

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Linear Review of Evidence

Hosted Document RepositoryIn-house Relational Database

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Production of Evidence

Native Image Metadata

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THANK YOU

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