Some of the
Basics
Basics
ESI
What is Electronically Stored Information?
1st Phase - Locating potential sources of ESI & determining its scope, breadth & depth.
What is Identification?
ECA
What is Early Case Assessment?
An agreement which states that if you accidentally give the other side your privileged documents, they have to give them back and can’t use them against you.
What is a Clawback Agreement?
"Portable Document Format" - sometimes used in production when not delivering metadata.
What is PDF?
1000 GB
What is a Terabyte?
Part of the 2nd Phase - Ensuring that ESI is protected against inappropriate alteration or destruction.
What Preservation?
What is Electronic Data Discovery?
Entities or owners of data in a case are otherwise known as.
What are Custodians?
A Tagged Image File Format, is a common file format to which hard copy documents are scanned, or ESI is converted for purposes of bates stamping and production.
What is a TIFF file?
EDRM
What is the Electronic Discovery Reference Model?
Part of the 3rd Phase - Reducing the volume of ESI and converting it, if necessary, to forms more suitable for review & analysis.
What is Processing?
CAL
What is Continuous Active Learning?
When persons involved in a case are told to avoid deleting or corrupting evidence.
What is a Litigation Hold?
Export extracted metadata from a processing tool, so that it can be uploaded to a document review platform.
What is a load file?
TAR
What is Technology Assisted Review?
Part of the 3rd Phase - Evaluating ESI for relevance & privilege.
What is Review?
FRCP
What is the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
A meeting (or phone call) at the beginning of a case for lawyers to talk about discovery.
What is Meet & Confer?
A file that is in the form in which it was originally created.
What is a Native file?
Data that describes the data, such as date and timestamp of an email, or creation date of a file
What is Metadata?
4th Phase - Delivering ESI to others in appropriate forms & using appropriate delivery mechanisms.
What is Production?
NIST
What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology
The process of having a human--usually a lawyer--set eyes on each of the documents in a specific order before any of them are produced to the other side.
What is Linear Review?
A file format for wrapping up huge numbers of emails and attachments in a way that preserves their ability to be searched.
What is a PST?