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E-Discovery in the Cloud! What's the Positive O...

E-Discovery in the Cloud! What's the Positive Outcomes

A few years ago, e-discovery in the cloud wasn’t even available. Now everything is on the cloud platform. Check out this presentation to know the positive outcomes of e-discovery in the cloud.

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Eliana Manon

February 05, 2020
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  1. E-discovery is the process of identification, collection, and production of

    relevant information from the electronically stored information (ESI) on the web for the final review in order to use it as an evidence or gain access to important facts related to the case. This includes going through websites, databases, social media, presentations, audio files, and more. E-Discovery
  2. The traditional method of conducting e-discovery was limited to using

    software on the desktops and sharing information via e-mails. However, with the rising popularity of cloud technology, legal professionals have adopted a much-refined approach towards by opting for SaaS( Software as a Service) in the cloud and using the massive case data for the legal research. legal research and writing
  3. 49% E-Discovery & Cloud Statistics As per the Gartner’s report,

    SaaS( Software as a Service) constituted of of the overall software revenue for e-discovery.
  4. According to a survey by eDJ Group, out of 172

    legal and IT professionals using cloud technology, only 16% of them opted for an e-discovery plan before thinking of using the cloud for data storage.
  5. Out of all the respondents in the eDJ Group survey

    58% used both private and public cloud, 7% used private clouds only. 94% used cloud in one way or the other, 29% used only public cloud,
  6. Limitless Scalability At times, investigations and lawsuits gather data in

    huge volumes. However, with cloud e- discovery, one can scale as per the need without affecting the efficiency and speed of the process.
  7. Decentralized, Multiple Reviewers With cloud e-discovery, law firms and corporations

    get a single platform to gain access to and review thousands of documents at the hands of multiple reviewers.
  8. Predictive Analytics For cases involving big data, e-cloud predictive coding

    paves the way for attorneys and investigators to focus on essential documents in the first place, using human review of sample data sets and artificial intelligence together.
  9. Foreign Language Edge Cloud e-discovery has great potential when it

    comes to processing multiple languages at a great speed for using foreign-language documents to review and present to courts.
  10. Reduced Total Cost of Ownership The total cost of ownership

    is reduced by 35% with cloud e-discovery as compared to the traditional method of conducting e-discovery using the in-house systems.
  11. Speed Cloud e-discovery not only lets you save on cost

    but speeds up the entire process as well, especially compared to the in-house systems that rely on XML database structures instead of SQL databases, requiring consistent indexing, leading to errors and delays.
  12. Visual Analytics Enable Complex Searches With the help of cloud

    e- discovery visual maps, charts, and graphs, lawyers establish relationships between concepts and people to find essential documents and speed up the case proceedings.
  13. Faster File Transfer and Data Uploads One of the biggest

    benefits associated with cloud e-discovery is the fact that it allows for faster, secure, and accurate data uploads and cloud-to-cloud data transfers to a secure and private data repository.
  14. Enhanced Data Access Cloud e-discovery is a secure platform that

    allows multiple users like contract reviewers, in-house counsel, law firms, and information governance to gain permission-based data access.
  15. 0 7 / 1 0 With cloud e-discovery, lawyers can

    store one document and code it for an issue, privilege, or other future matter characteristics, reducing the need for storing and re-coding documents’ duplicate copies. Single/Multi-Matter Instance Allows for Enterprise Workflow
  16. There is no denying that cloud technology helps in streamlining

    the e-discovery process, but it is a fact that conducting legal research requires expertise, training, and time.
  17. Lawyers usually lack time to conduct e-discovery, but when they

    outsource their e-discovery requirements to top providers like LSW, they get to focus on their core business activities, leaving the responsibility of conducting e-discovery on the expert and trained team of the outsourcing partner, eventually saving them on the overall costs and letting them be more competitive in a crowded market.
  18. Legal Support World (LSW) is one of the leading names

    when it comes to providing cost-effective, qualitative, and timely outsourcing e-discovery solutions to law firms.