Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of tools available to attorneys to analyze and review electronically stored information (“ESI”) that has been collected from clients or produced by opposing parties. While courts and attorneys continue to become

Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of tools available to attorneys to analyze and review electronically stored information (“ESI”) that has been collected from clients or produced by opposing parties. While courts and attorneys continue to become comfortable with the use of tools like technology-assisted review, email threading, document clustering, and document categorization to facilitate the actual review of documents, there are a host of top-down methods for analyzing the document population as a whole that can provide helpful insight that would be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain through a document-by-document analysis.

On November 10, 2016, Law360 released an article entitled Data Analytics: How Parties Are Using Tools Beyond TAR that outlined a number of case studies where these “big data” tools can directly assist in identifying potential areas of interest or gaps in available ESI.Continue Reading Using Metadata Reports and Analytics to Identify Trends in Your Document Population