Information discovery
Encyclopedia
Information Discovery is a term used in the legal and corporate industry which refers to the steps involved in distilling a corporation’s data corpus down to the most pertinent evidence pertaining to a court-related matter or compliance directive. The major information discovery steps include; managing the entire data collection in a manner to identify all pertinent evidence associated with the matter, targeting that information for collection (forensically or otherwise), processing and identification (culling) of relevant data, and processing for document hosting and legal document/information review.
Global organizations deal with legal discovery and disclosure request for electronically stored information
“ESI” and paper documents on a regular basis. The massive emergence of evidence in electronic format, and the emergence of entirely new forms of evidence, present a number of cultural, practical, and legal challenges to both corporations and their law firms. Managing the massive amounts of information involved in a legal matter can sometimes be tedious and expensive.
Information Discovery although a similar term for manage document review (attorney document review, document review) and/or Electronic Discovery
(e-Discovery, eDiscovery) is more encompassing to the entire process involved in identifying relevant information within a legal matter.
A number of software tools and service providers exist today that assist in and help facilitate the process of information discovery including early case assessment
“ECA” tools, hosting platforms, cloud services, and managed document review firms. Corporations are also looking at ways to defray the expense associated with information discovery by looking at bringing solutions in-house or by insourcing
through a third party service provider oftentimes requiring customization for the client involved.
Risk Management
Legal governance, risk management, and compliance
Early Case Assessment
Ronald J. Hedges (2007). Discovery of Electronically Stored Information. BNA Books. ISBN 1570186723.
Jonathan M. Redgrave (2007). The Sedona Principles 2007: Best Practices Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production. BNA Books. ISBN 1570186774.
Albert J. Marcella, Albert J. Marcella, Jr., Doug Menendez (2007). "Electronically stored information and cyber forensics". Cyber Forensics. CRC Press. ISBN 0849383285.
Global organizations deal with legal discovery and disclosure request for electronically stored information
Electronically stored information
Electronically stored information, for the purpose of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is information created, manipulated, communicated, stored, and best utilized in digital form, requiring the use of computer hardware and software....
“ESI” and paper documents on a regular basis. The massive emergence of evidence in electronic format, and the emergence of entirely new forms of evidence, present a number of cultural, practical, and legal challenges to both corporations and their law firms. Managing the massive amounts of information involved in a legal matter can sometimes be tedious and expensive.
Information Discovery although a similar term for manage document review (attorney document review, document review) and/or Electronic Discovery
Electronic Discovery
Electronic discovery refers to discovery in civil litigation which deals with the exchange of information in electronic format . Usually a digital forensics analysis is performed to recover evidence...
(e-Discovery, eDiscovery) is more encompassing to the entire process involved in identifying relevant information within a legal matter.
A number of software tools and service providers exist today that assist in and help facilitate the process of information discovery including early case assessment
Early case assessment
Early case assessment refers to estimating risk to prosecute or defend a legal case. Global organizations deal with legal discovery and disclosure requests for electronically stored information "ESI" and paper documents on a regular basis.Over 90% of all cases settle prior to trial...
“ECA” tools, hosting platforms, cloud services, and managed document review firms. Corporations are also looking at ways to defray the expense associated with information discovery by looking at bringing solutions in-house or by insourcing
Insourcing
Insourcing is the opposite of outsourcing; that is insourcing is often defined as the delegation of operations or jobs from production within a business to an internal entity that specializes in that operation...
through a third party service provider oftentimes requiring customization for the client involved.
Categories
eDiscoveryRisk Management
Risk management
Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities...
Legal governance, risk management, and compliance
Legal governance, risk management, and compliance
Legal Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance or "LGRC", refers to the complex set of processes, rules, tools and systems used by corporate legal departments to adopt, implement and monitor an integrated approach to business problems....
Early Case Assessment
Early case assessment
Early case assessment refers to estimating risk to prosecute or defend a legal case. Global organizations deal with legal discovery and disclosure requests for electronically stored information "ESI" and paper documents on a regular basis.Over 90% of all cases settle prior to trial...
External links
- http://www.edrm.net/
- http://www.acc.com/
- http://www.thesedonaconference.org/content/miscFiles/TSCGlossary_12_07.pdf
Further reading
George L. Paul and Bruce H. Nearon (2006). "Meet the New Rules". The Discovery Revolution. American Bar Association. ISBN 1590316053.Ronald J. Hedges (2007). Discovery of Electronically Stored Information. BNA Books. ISBN 1570186723.
Jonathan M. Redgrave (2007). The Sedona Principles 2007: Best Practices Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production. BNA Books. ISBN 1570186774.
Albert J. Marcella, Albert J. Marcella, Jr., Doug Menendez (2007). "Electronically stored information and cyber forensics". Cyber Forensics. CRC Press. ISBN 0849383285.