Best Practices for Conducting a Modern Electronic Document Review

Winston & Strawn presented an eLunch titled "Best Practices for Conducting a Modern Electronic Document Review" on July 14, 2011 at 12:15 p.m. (Central).

The cost of document review can be the highest expense associated with any litigation. The traditional model of using partner-track associates to conduct the review is no longer a feasible or cost-effective strategy. Use of lower-cost reviewers through staffing companies or outsourced providers has become an alternative for many litigants. That solution, however, is not always the best one depending upon the particular case/electronically stored information ("ESI") at issue. In addition, quality concerns about outsourced reviews persist, unless they are carefully managed and supervised. An optimal approach to document review is to use a combination of people, process and technology to dramatically lower the cost of electronic document review. 

Winston & Strawn attorney John Rosenthal, chair of the firm's eDiscovery Practice Group led a practical, interactive presentation that provided the latest strategies for conducting a modern document review. 

The discussion focused on:

• Effective strategies for reducing the cost of an electronic document review;
• Use of second generation search technologies to both filter document sets and more efficiently organize the materials for review, including concepting, clustering, threading and near-duping technologies;
• Implementing best practices in the review process to ensure a high degree of precision and recall;
• Effective strategies for handling privilege documents; and
• Use of lower-cost reviewers. 

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