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Getting a grasp of the strengths and weaknesses of one’s case early becomes more important and more challenging with substantial ESI. Creating early case timelines can help keep your case perspective accurate.
Assessing one’s case early is as important as ever. Keyword selections, used for discovery requests and Rule 26 Meet and Confer agreements, depend on accurate identification of the important case issues. If the critical issues of a case are not identified until later, then it will become necessary to request additional documents based on new keywords, or from different custodians. This can add substantial cost to discovery collections and tries the patience of opponents and potentially the court. At some point in the discovery process the cost of additional collections will shift to the requestor, or it simply will not be possible to identify new issues too late in the process. A related concern involves identifying potential claims and defenses early enough in the discovery process to be able to include them in the pleadings.
Read the complete article at: Developing A Clear Picture With Early Case Timelines