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[Originally Published in Law Technology News, August, 2006]
A colleague recently asked me to list 10 electronic data discovery errors lawyers make with distressing regularity. Here’s that list, along with suggestions to avoid making them:
#1 – Committing to EDD efforts without understanding a client’s systems or data.
It’s Russian roulette to make Electronic Data Discovery (EDD) promises when you haven’t a clue how much data your client has, or what and where it is. Instead, map the systems and run digital “biopsies” on representative samples to generate reliable metrics and gain a feel for how much are documents, e-mail, compressed files, photos, spreadsheets, applications and so on.It matters. A hundred gigabytes of geophysical data or video may be a handful of files and cost next to nothing to produce. The same 100 gigs of compressed e-mail could comprise tens of millions of pages and cost a fortune.
Read the complete article at: Ten Common E-Discovery Blunders, Revisited