Socha White Paper: Bringing EDD in-house: risks and rewards

Here is a link to a white paper I prepared on the topic of bringing electronic discovery in-house:  http://www.sochaconsulting.com/files/Bringing_ediscovery_in-house.pdf

The paper was sponsored by ZyLAB.

Table of Contents:

• Management Summary
• Background
• Introduction
• Understanding the issues associated with e-discovery
  • Control costs and risks 
  • Recognize benefits among a minefield of negatives 
• Addressing the problem:  reducing e-discovery costs & risks
  • Adopt a relevant and workable framework, such as EDRM 
  • Take e-discovery in-house 
  • Go beyond a “faith-based” approach 
  • Use an “investigative” approach, not just an “exclusionary” one 
  • March full speed into the past 
  • Move to higher octane, analytics-fueled review 
  • Deal with complex and less common file types, don’t just treat them as exceptions 
  • Know the differences between legal search and Web search technologies 
• Conclusion
• Appendices
  • Appendix A: Understand the ZyLAB Approach to e-Discovery 
  • Appendix B: More information 
  • Appendix C: About EDRM.net 
  • Appendix D: About ZyLAB 
  • Appendix E: Corporate directory