Automated Early Case Assessment (ECA)

Growing enterprise data volumes and shrinking response timelines require instant preservation and assessment of key ESI

Enterprises are faced with myriad factors necessitating automated early case assessment (ECA), including the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), federal and state case law, 'fast-track' programs adopted in many jurisdictions, and increased regulatory scrutiny - all requiring greater control over electronically stored information (ESI). To effectively meet these challenges, IT and legal departments must use automated, state-of-the-art legal hold technology.

Assessing a Matter's Merits From the Outset 

Most enterprises find themselves completely in the dark about the substance of their case until the eDiscovery process is into the review stage, by which point the enterprise has already incurred significant cost from ESI preservation, collection, processing and culling.  This makes strategic planning at a proceeding's outset impossible, ultimately costing the enterprise millions of dollars in unnecessary eDiscovery costs, regulatory fines and lost court decisions in cases which would otherwise have been settled at the outset - had the enterprise been able to assess the case from the start of the eDiscovery process.

Unique Explore-In-Place™ Technology Provides Instant Assessment

True ECA requires a system that supports live exploration of data from the outset of the eDiscovery process. Enterprises must be able to conduct live exploration of data before a legal hold is applied and without the need to undergo costly and time intensive migration of data to another repository or, worse yet, third party provider.

Utilizing Insite Legal Hold's unique Explore-in-Place technology, ESI is automatically organized into automatically-generated categories, including custodian, language, domain, location, etc., before it is collected.  This allows for the earliest possible assessment and analysis of ESI, well before any eDiscovery costs are incurred, which enables enterprises to form an educated strategy from a proceeding's outset. 

Improve Risk Management while Driving Cost Reduction

Using Insite Legal Hold's sophisticated search and filtering tools to identify only the relevant ESI needed for a proceeding, users can then collect only the data necessary for a given proceeding - in the process deduplicating, processing and culling ESI to the smallest defensible amount possible - all in a single, fully integrated system.  This results in not only lower eDiscovery costs for the proceeding at hand - as only post-processed and culled ESI is sent to outside counsel for review - but greatly reduced risk, as irrelevant or unnecessary data need not be collected, leaving it subject to the normal data retention policy and process.

Integrated Deep Analysis and Review Capabilities

And for those enterprises who prefer to conduct deeper analysis or first level review in-house, only Insite Legal Hold provides fully integrated automated review and advanced analytics capabilities, using the unique Axcelerate eDiscovery application.