Blank Law & Technology understands that an essential – and achievable – goal in e-discovery cases is to control costs related to processing, reviewing, and producing documents.  An understanding of the various stages and functions of electronic discovery is imperative. 

Blank Law & Technology has found that subdividing electronic discovery functions into eight independent stages is a sensible approach to describing how best to control costs.   It is also helpful to think in terms of a “funnel.”  ESI is collected at the top, at the first stage, and filters its way down through successively more expensive (on a per-volume basis) stages until only a few hundred or dozens of documents emerge from the spout for use at trial. 

Blank Law & Technology achieves results by systematic coordinated performance of each of the e-discovery functions:

1. - Assess all esi
2. - Secure potentially producible data
3. - Extract
4. - Sort/Cull
5. - Macrosearch
6. - Process
7. - Review a justifiably small database online
8. - Manage and Produce only essential producible data