Sometimes a client needs to do something important in connection with a case which is going to take days and days of manual work to say nothing of the risk of individual mistakes. Harrisons eDiscovery Consulting Pty Limited was approached recently by a local Advocate client to solve just such a problem.
Our Advocate was pursuing a Sequestration order against a former client. He needed to isolate a number of emails and attachments from his laptop for discovery purposes. There were issues in that the emails existed in more than one place and were further complicated in that some were replicated by his secretary, and others were privileged. We advised that we needed to collect, then process, de-duplicate and filter in accordance with his date range. Then the resultant emails needed to be produced in chronological order and paginated along with a schedule in Excel.
We collected the data remotely, undertook all of the above resulting in 1499 documents amounting to 9891 pages, and delivered to him inside 2 days. Obviously, we used an eDiscovery solution for this work.
I mention this as it is a commonly held incorrect belief that you only need this technology when you have a large case to handle. It is all about saving time (and therefore cost), avoiding risk and allowing the technology to do the work.