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ESI Technologies

By Michael Conner and Jeffrey Teso

In the world of e-discovery, we frequently become caught up in “latest and greatest” cutting edge technologies, often forgoing the previous. It wasn't that long ago when early case assessment (ECA) tools were all the rage. Practitioners were discussing how removing large swaths of data from a document data universe could provide enormous cost savings, as well as provide greater insight leading to more transparent project scoping and budgeting. As many of us were settling on technology platforms and forming case strategies and protocols utilizing ECA software, predictive coding (PC) and technology assisted review (TAR) software entered the market. The latter almost too quickly seemed to replace the former. The fact is, both technologies used on their own can provide great benefit, however, they should not be considered mutually exclusive. The advantages of creating an ESI strategy that includes the use of each, ECA and PC or TAR has numerous benefits that should not be overlooked.

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