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Relativity Lunch & Learn – October 27th, 2015
Radically Efficient e-DiscoveryE-Discovery | Forensics | Matter Management |
Corporate Legal Consulting
Relativity Lunch and Learn Event
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1. Introduction
2. kCura’s Relativity Fest Updates from 2015
3. Relativity - Key Features and Updates
4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupe;
5. Kiersted Proprietary Technology: Direct; CrossCode
6. Q&A and Concluding Remarks
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Agenda - Relativity Lunch and Learn – Bryant Park Hotel
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1. Introduction: Electronic Discovery Reference Model
Mainframes &Storage Servers PCs & WorkstationsCDs & DVDs
Tapes
Solid StateStoragePrinter
Copier Fax Machine
IP Telephone
iPods/Mp3 players
Removable DisksRecycle Bin Voicemail
Email PDAs & Cell PhonesiPads/tablets
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1. Introduction: Weapons of Mass Disclosure
Notebooks
Undertake to implement the FRCP changes in a consistent and uniform way regarding:
• Case Management (early and meaningful meet and confers, requesting in-person Rule 16 conferences; requesting conferences in advance of motion practice)
• Discovery (serving discovery early, eliminating the use of general objections, withholding information based upon clearly stated and specific objections)
• Proportional preservation and discovery (developing a defensible and documented plan; using the meet and confer process to reach agreements on scope)
• Sanctions (implementing reasonable preservation guidelines/tools/practices to take terminating sanctions off the table)
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1. Introduction: Be Prepared for the Upcoming Changes to FRCP
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2. kCura’s Relativity Fest Updates from 2015
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2. kCura’s Relativity Fest Updates from 2015
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2. kCura’s Relativity Fest Updates from 2015
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2. kCura’s Relativity Fest Updates from 2015
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2. kCura’s Relativity Fest Updates from 2015
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2. kCura’s Relativity Fest Updates from 2015
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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3. Relativity – Key Features and Updates
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Familiar Questions?
• Who coded this field?
• Which layout was used?
• Who overturned this coding? When did this happen?!
• Where are all the docs we coded last week?
• Why don’t these Privileged docs have Attorney’s Notes?
• How fast are we going? How can I show that?
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Why can’t I answer these questions?!?! How did this Happen?!?!
Most web sites use form validation to prevent bad user input
• No Real Time Feedback
• Bad User Input
• No Form Validation
• Limited Audit Capability
• No Fielded Data
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• What’s “Bad Input”?
• Used the wrong Layout
• Privilege without privilege type
• Responsive….without responsive reason
• Didn’t include initials in notes
• Didn’t follow issue tagging guidelines
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Form Validation
• We’ve all seen this on the Web
• Make sure specific rules are followed
• User can’t proceed without required input
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Enter Event Handlers
• Programmable Rules in Relativity
• Perfect for form validation:
Stops bad input in its tracks!Keeps workflows intact
• Also have lots of other uses
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Programmable?! Like with Code?!
• Yes...mostly.
• kCura released Event Handler Express with Relativity 9.2
• Does form validation and you should use it…if you’re not
• However, doesn’t cover many useful capabilities
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Custom Event Handlers
• Kiersted has full-time, on-site developers who specialize in this type of coding.
• We’ve created dozens of custom solutions using this powerful technology.
• “You can basically do anything.” – (Christopher Dyroff)
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Simple Custom Examples
• First Coded / Last Coded
• Auto-Set the “Reviewed” value
• Enforce the Correct Layout
• Enforce Issue Consistency
• Tree Structure Coding
• Next Doc in Batch
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Advanced (Fun) Custom Examples
• Dynamic Layouts
• Colored HTML fields for custom alerts
• Send an email
• Log to an object for administrators
• Integrate with another system
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Why are Event Handlers So Powerful?
• Lowers Risk
• Provide Constant Intervention
• Enforcing Case Logic
• Creating Efficiencies
• Reward Planning and Workflow
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4. Cost Savings Strategies: Event Handlers; Threads; Near Dupes
• Top Recommendation for Event Handler Usage
• Coded By, Coded On, Coded Choice
• “Watch” fields of interest
• Log user activity to Fielded Data
• Activity can then be:
VisualizedSearched OnAggregated (New Pivot!)
An “email thread” is a group of emails sent between correspondents, making it possible to keep track of an email conversation.
• Threading allows systems to group emails together for each conversation• Viewers can easily see the order of each email in a chain and:
Identify which emails are inclusive
Identify duplicative emails
Possibly identify missing emails from a thread
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• What is an Email Thread?
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Example
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Process
How is an Email Thread created?
• Index creation: A specialized index is created using email text, selected email metadata, and attachment information
• Text compare: Email text and metadata are compared in order to identify which emails are entirely encompassed by others
• Attachment Consideration: Attachment information is also used to identify inclusive emails
Email threading results in fielded information that can be used in any document review system.
• Thread Group ID: Used to group individual emails into a thread• Order ID: The order in which the email appears in the thread
• Inclusive email identification
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• What You Get
• Inclusive emails contain the most complete prior message content, regardless of their location in an email chain
• A standalone email with no replies or forwards is, by definition, inclusive
• The last email in a thread is also, by definition, inclusive
• An email that contains unique attachments is inclusive, regardless of its’ location
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Inclusive Emails
• Greatly increases reviewer speed
• Greatly increases reviewer accuracy
• Can reduce the number of emails reviewed
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Why It’s Useful
Email threading allows users to:
• Easily see the order of the email in a thread
• Identify inclusive emails
• Identify missing emails from a thread
• Identify duplicative emails
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Why It’s Useful
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Suggested Workflows
Inclusive Email Review:
• Batch only inclusive email
• Propagate coding to family members
• Suppress non-inclusive
• Coding calls can be applied to threads for production
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Suggested Workflows
Entire Thread Review:
• Batch all documents
• Ensure that threads are batched together, inclusive appearing first
• Coding propagation: Families only
• Batching criteria
• Reviewer thread view
• Coding propagation
• Related items view
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Email Threading
• Workspace Features
A near duplicate is a document that is similar to another, typically a
different version of the same document.
Examples:
• Document Drafts
• Contract / Agreements
• Leases
• Reports
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Near Duplicates
What is Near De-Duplication, and how is it done?
Near de-duplication is a process that determines near duplicates using a document’s textual content rather than its file properties, such as MD5 Hash or SHA-256 Hash.
• Near duplicates are identified based on the electronically extracted text of each document
• The extracted document text is used to create a specialized index
• By comparing text, a group of documents is identified by the following criteria: • A defined amount of the text is similar• The similar text appears in the same order
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Near De-Duplication
• Near De-Duplication results in fielded information that can be
used in any document review system
• Near Duplicate group ID: Used to group Near Duplicates
• Textual Near Duplicate Principal: The ‘anchor’ document of
the group, which contains the largest amount of text
• Similarity: Percentage of likeness of the document to the
Principal
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Near De-Duplication
• What You Get
• Greatly increases reviewer speed
• Greatly increases reviewer accuracy
• Ensures document coding consistency
• Enables analysis using the Relativity Compare tool: Creates a view that compares the extracted text of two specified documents and highlights the differences
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Near De-Duplication
• How it’s Useful
• Batching criteria
• Near duplicate related items view
• Coding propagation
• Document compare tool
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Near De-Duplication
• Value
• Cost: Reduces the overall cost of the review
• Speed: Reduces the amount of review time spent
• Accuracy: Improves accuracy of coding decisions
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Near De-Duplication
• Valuable for ALL Document Reviews
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4. Using e-Discovery Technology: Near De-Duplication
Use technology such as Email Threads and Near De-Dupe to reduce cost and risk:
• Less time, work and cost associated with the overall e-Discovery and document review process
• Use of proven and industry-leading technology tools that identify relevant documents faster
• Reduced risk of inadvertent production of privileged materials
Kiersted has developed proprietary tools to reduce costs and create efficiencies:
a) Direct
b) Cross-Code
c) Customized Relativity Environment
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5. Kiersted Proprietary Technology: Direct; CrossCode; Customized Relativity
• Technology Assisted Search
• Improve keyword searching Techniques to more accurately filter data
• Easily create and execute large search lists in real-time
• Prepare for Meet & Confer – become familiar with overall data population
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5. Kiersted Proprietary Technology: Early Case Assessment (ECA)
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5. Kiersted Proprietary Technology: CrossCode
• Transfers document coding across projects
• Completely automated
• Searchable: use for batching, bulk coding
• Persistent: maintain the coding even after the project has been deleted
• Full-time, dedicated development staff
• Certified project management
• Customized solutions (Direct, Cross-code)
• Leverage/develop event handlers
• kCura Relativity Best in Service status
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5. Kiersted Proprietary Technology: Customized Relativity Environment
Making Review and Relativity Better
• Customized Reporting Available
• Reports generated on various metrics such as:
Total Use TimeViewsEdits (Per Hour; Per Day)PropagationOverturn Rates
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5. Kiersted Proprietary Technology: Customized Relativity Environment
Making Review and Relativity Better
Any Questions?• Relativity Updates
• Relativity Features
• Event Handlers; Threads; Near Duplicate Detection
• Kiersted Direct
Closing Remarks: • Be prepared for Changes to FRCP scheduled for December 2015
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6. Concluding Remarks
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6. Concluding Remarks
Questions? Comments?
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6. Concluding Remarks
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Thank You!
Kiersted Systems, LPLinda Gordon, Sales
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