Stephen Ludlow
May 17, 2011
eDiscovery in Canada
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26% have undiscriminating policies on deletion of all emails, 23% keep everything just in case and 31% have no policies or non-enforced policies. The remainder either manually or automatically declare important emails as records and delete the others.
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eDiscovery in Canada
eDiscovery in Government
Listeriosis Investigative Review
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Collection
Per custodian - $300 - $1000
Spoliation of Metadata
Completeness
Processing
Extraction of metadata and attachments for review
5M pages - 70 GB
70GB x $1000/GB
Review
Legal Review v Audit
Legal Review = $1-$2/page
eDiscovery in Government
“....the late disclosure throws into question whether the commissioner has received
everything he needs from the RCMP, and argued that the
closing submissions should be delayed so the RCMP officers
involved can be called to testify about the email and a full review of the disclosure process can be completed.”
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“The email was apparently overlooked by federal government lawyers in the thousands of pages of documents received from the RCMP on CD-ROMs during the inquiry.”
eDiscovery in Canada The Pension Committee of the University of Montreal Pension Plan, et al. v. Banc of America Securities LLC
Canada played its own small part in one of the seminal rulings on spoliation in 2010
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Corporate Response Information Governance
Gain control of information growth through archiving and disposition
Classification of information is critical
Insourcing eDiscovery Activities In-source eDiscovery activities to
reduce costs
Defensibly perform Litigation Holds to reduce risk of court fines and sanctions
Collection and Processing
Reduce volume being sent for review
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AIIM International Email Management ROI Calculator
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Volume Based Cost Collection
Processing
Review
Storage
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Volume Related Risk
Errors and omissions
Spoliation and Smoking Guns
Time pressures
Per GB
Per Page
Per Document
Per Custodian
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Data
Growth Compound
IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released Oct 25, 2008
of
The Impact of Disposition
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61.7% CAGR predicted for unstructured data
IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released Oct 25, 2008
The Impact of Disposition
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61.7% CAGR predicted for unstructured data
IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released Oct 25, 2008
The Impact of Disposition
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61.7% CAGR predicted for unstructured data
IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released Oct 25, 2008
The Impact of Disposition
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61.7% CAGR predicted for unstructured data
IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released Oct 25, 2008
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Index Classify Store Dispose Secure Retain Capture
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End-Users
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C-Suite
The New Battleground
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Similar to the EDRM, the IMRM could become a standard against which vendors position their products
It also provides a good model to examine Open Text Archiving benefits
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eDiscovery in the Enterprise
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Use the Archive to Apply In-Place Litigation Holds Disposition of ESI must be suspended until all litigation holds are removed
Search-based application of Litigation Hold
Not All Content Lives in the Archive Search & Collection of content at risk in disparate Enterprise Sources is required
Interface with content on Litigation Hold in the Archive
Reduce the Volume of Content Sent for Review to Reduce Costs Cull on collect
Cull content on hold prior to export
Deduplicate and Process Content to further reduce costs
Potential Cost Savings in eDiscovery
o Defensibly reduce the universe of content in the Enterprise through disposition using RM
o Reduce eDiscovery and storage costs
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1 TB
500 GB
300 GB
200 GB
75 GB
15 GB
Preservation
Collection
Search Categorized and Culled
De-Dupe, Near De-Dupe
Reviewed
Produced
Information Management
Enterprise Content
Potential Cost Savings in eDiscovery
o Broad preservation in Archive can reduce risk of sanctions and adverse inference
o Archived content can be preserved at little to no cost
o Preservation of uncontrolled content based on only relevant information
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1 TB
500 GB
300 GB
200 GB
75 GB
15 GB
Preservation
Collection
Search Categorized and Culled
De-Dupe, Near De-Dupe
Reviewed
Produced
Information Management
Enterprise Content
Potential Cost Savings in eDiscovery
o Reduce or eliminate manual collection
o Reduce burden on IT
o Reduce dependency on service providers
o Collect only relevant information
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1 TB
500 GB
300 GB
200 GB
75 GB
15 GB
Preservation
Collection
Search Categorized and Culled
De-Dupe, Near De-Dupe
Reviewed
Produced
Information Management
Enterprise Content
Potential Cost Savings in eDiscovery
o Use specialized search and reporting capabilities to analyze and understand content
o Defensibly further reduce the content to be sent for review
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1 TB
500 GB
300 GB
200 GB
75 GB
15 GB
Preservation
Collection
Search Categorized and Culled
De-Dupe, Near De-Dupe
Reviewed
Produced
Information Management
Enterprise Content
Potential Cost Savings in eDiscovery
o Eliminate duplicate documents while maintaining chain of custody
o Reduce the volume of documents sent for review
o Ensure documents are only reviewed once
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1 TB
500 GB
300 GB
200 GB
75 GB
15 GB
Preservation
Collection
Search Categorized and Culled
De-Dupe, Near De-Dupe
Reviewed
Produced
Information Management
Enterprise Content
Potential Cost Savings in eDiscovery
o Reduce or eliminate processing costs
o Review is the single greatest cost associated to eDiscovery - accounting for up to 80% of cost
o Insourcing some review and develop strategic vendor relationships
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1 TB
500 GB
300 GB
200 GB
75 GB
15 GB
Preservation
Collection
Search Categorized and Culled
De-Dupe, Near De-Dupe
Reviewed
Produced
Information Management
Enterprise Content
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What is the volume of litigation in the corporation?
How much do we want to in-source?
Do we have policies in place?
Stakeholder buy-in?
Do we have the internal expertise?
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