eDiscovery Basics
The process of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a request for production in a lawsuit or investigation
What is eDiscovery?
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which govern civil litigation in U.S. federal courts.
What is the FRCP?
A method of searching for specific words or phrases within a set of documents.
What is a keyword search?
The act of ensuring that relevant data is not altered or deleted.
What is data preservation?
The need to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access.
What is data privacy?
Data that provides information about other data, such as the date and time a document was created or modified.
What is metadata?
The rule that requires parties to disclose certain information without awaiting a discovery request.
What is Rule 26?
The process of identifying and removing duplicate copies of data.
What is data deduplication?
The process of gathering relevant data from various sources.
What is data collection?
The measures taken to safeguard data from breaches and other security threats.
What is data security?
A directive to preserve all forms of relevant information when litigation is reasonably anticipated.
What is a legal hold?
The rule that governs the procedure for requesting and producing documents and ESI.
What is Rule 34?
A technology-assisted review method that uses machine learning to categorize and prioritize documents.
What is predictive coding?
The process of converting raw data into a usable format for review.
What is data processing?
The challenge of managing large volumes of data in eDiscovery.
What is data volume?
Electronically Stored Information, which includes emails, documents, databases, audio files, and more.
What is ESI?
The rule that addresses sanctions for failing to preserve ESI.
What is Rule 37?
Precedential case that allows for Technology-Assisted Review if parties are transparent and validate results.
What is Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe
The process of examining data to identify relevant information.
What is data review?
The difficulty of dealing with complex data structures and formats.
What is data complexity?
An individual who has control over or access to relevant ESI.
What is a custodian?
The destruction or alteration of evidence that is relevant to litigation.
What is spoliation?
A file that is in the format in which it was originally created, without any conversion or alteration.
What is a native file?
The process of delivering relevant data to the requesting party.
What is data production?
The complications that arise when dealing with data that crosses international borders.
What is cross-border eDiscovery?