Not being able to collect all of the ESI you really need from your client because of high EDD costs is like trying to win the 50-meter freestyle with a torn speedo.
Collecting and processing ESI under the traditional process (Collect-Process-Review-Analyze) is costly. In many cases, the costs of e-discovery puts litigators in a position where the scope of discovery simply has to be limited. In recent conversations with leading law firms, we’ve found that many are viewing early case assessment (ECA) tools as an opportunity to expand discovery requests. ECA allows firms to tweak the traditional process (Collect-Process-Analyze-Review).
It seems fair to argue that if a firm litigation team can expand their collection, their clients overall interests will be better served. We estimate that compared to the traditional model, using an objective culling tool like Clearwell or MetaLINCS will allow litigation support professionals to collect between 30% to 50% more data.
Visit this page to download an interactive spreadsheet that compares litigation processing and review costs of the traditional EDD Process to the processing and review costs incurred when leveraging ECA (Early Case Assessment) Tools.
Posted by Jeff 
