Issue link: https://epubs.iltanet.org/i/45522
"By 2013, video and audio will constitute more than 50 percent of all business content." in an enterprise, with its ability to search and analyze data in place (i.e., where it lives) is perhaps the most direct example of the mitigating impact of advanced technologies on speed, cost and risk. Legal Hold: Legal hold has significantly changed in corporate legal departments and law firms in recent years. Many vendors initially marketed "legal hold" solutions designed to manage the distribution and tracking of legal hold notices, with corporations subsequently perceiving legal hold tools as tactical notification systems. While these are certainly necessary steps, the preservation obligation extends well beyond simple case and notice tracking, requiring relevant data to be preserved. Single- platform solutions now exist to manage all phases of the legal hold process to provide a unified, audited, scalable and case-based environment for collection, preservation and notification. By unifying this process on one platform, counsel eliminates risky handoffs and manual processes. Review and Analysis: The biggest cost in e-discovery is typically the review and analysis phase, 12 Risky Business ILTA White Paper which often involves a document-by-document review of data, including both ESI and physical records. While ECA provides a method to precull documents prior to review and reduces the data set, the ever-increasing volume of data makes it difficult to control these costs. Many organizations have relied on conventional tools to conduct document review. Traditional, legacy review technology relies on linear review that starts with the first document and moves chronologically through the documents. This can be a slow process, with review rates ranging from 50-100 documents per reviewer, per hour. More advanced technology permits nonlinear review, with reviewers categorizing and clustering data based on concept and context, thus helping to improve review speeds and allowing reviewers to focus on a given topic. While there are different approaches to nonlinear review, counsel should generally look to advanced solutions that are language independent and have the ability to handle all data types, including audio, video and social media. Using tools that allow for advanced conceptual search, contextual analysis,