eDiscovery Day 2020 Jeopardy

Some of the Basics

100

ESI

What is Electronically Stored Information?

200

1000 GB

What is a Terabyte?

300

EDRM

What is the Electronic Discovery Reference Model?

400

TAR

What is Technology Assisted Review?

500

Data that describes the data, such as date and timestamp of an email, or creation date of a file

What is Metadata?

Phases of the EDRM Model

100

1st Phase - Locating potential sources of ESI & determining its scope, breadth & depth. 

What is Identification? 

200

Part of the 2nd Phase - Ensuring that ESI is protected against inappropriate alteration or destruction. 

What Preservation?

300

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?

400

Part of the 3rd Phase - Evaluating ESI for relevance & privilege. 

What is Review?

500

4th Phase - Delivering ESI to others in appropriate forms & using appropriate delivery mechanisms. 

What is Production?

e-Discovery Acronyms

100

ECA

What is Early Case Assessment?

200

EDD

What is Electronic Data Discovery?

300

CAL

^{What is Continuous Active Learning?} 

400

FRCP

What is the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?

500

NIST

What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Terms & Agreements that Litigators use that eDiscovery professionals usually know

100

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?

200

Entities or owners of data in a case are otherwise known as.

What are Custodians?

300

When persons involved in a case are told to avoid deleting or corrupting evidence.

What is a Litigation Hold?

400

A meeting (or phone call) at the beginning of a case for lawyers to talk about discovery.

What is Meet & Confer?

500

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?

Types of Files

100

"Portable Document Format" - sometimes used in production when not delivering metadata.

What is PDF?

200

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?

300

Export extracted metadata from a processing tool, so that it can be uploaded to a document review platform.

What is a load file?

400

A file that is in the form in which it was originally created.

What is a Native file?

500

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?