Cross-Matter Management

With the rise of serial litigation (intellectual property and class action) and government inquiries (mergers and acquisitions and antitrust) many corporate and law firm clients face multiple sequential matters where the same custodians or data sets must be collected, processed, reviewed and produced. Often attorney work product and case data become silo’d within different applications for processing or review, creating inefficiencies for clients who are unable to proactively leverage this information from one matter to the next.  As a result, clients must replicate expensive tasks and processes for each new matter, resulting in higher costs, time delays, and increased risk exposure.

Daegis’ Cross-Matter Management is a proactive approach to managing eDiscovery that ensures an efficient and consistent discovery response across multiple matters. Instead of a narrow focus on discrete phases of the eDiscovery lifecycle and individual litigations or investigations, Cross-Matter Management integrates eDiscovery processes across a series of matters over longer periods of time.  This holistic methodology for managing eDiscovery aligns technology with business processes, resulting in costs savings of greater than 30%.

A key element of Daegis’ Cross-Matter Management is the Master Repository. The Master Repository serves as a central location where clients can retain custodian data and attorney work product which has been collected across multiple matters. The Master Repository captures decisions made regarding the responsiveness, privilege, and confidentiality of electronically stored information (ESI).

Clients are able to track which documents were produced without having to re-collect or re-process the same information. Document review projects maintain bi-lateral communication with the Master Repository, enabling attorney work product and production history to be retained and viewed within the Master Repository resulting in cost savings and consistency of response across the eDiscovery lifecycle.

Key Benefits

By leveraging the power of the Master Repository to re-use collected ESI and attorney work product across multiple review projects, corporations with serial litigation can realize:

• Cost Savings – of 30% or more through elimination of duplicative collection, processing and hosting fees in new matters and reuse of previously collected coding determinations.
• Time Savings – as data is made immediately available for search and analysis or can be efficiently moved to document review without the need to export and re-import.
• Risk Reduction – by retaining prior production history and ensuring there are no data fidelity issues or inconsistent production sets.