Phase V - Production

Following the data processing phase, all relevant documents are produced in line with the scope of the discovery order. The documentation set can be converted to a number of formats for upload to an in-house document management platform.

The traditional approaches consist of: (1) printing each document and manually reviewing them with highlighters in hand; or (2) converting them into TIFF and reviewing in a litigation database tool. Both approaches are fraught with high-costs, limitations, and errors. Further, they do not provide the much-needed context to perform an accurate examination of the document, and fail to uncover important metadata such as formulas and hidden columns in a spreadsheet for example.

For review and production, Espion’s customers typically:
• Review the responsive data within Clearwell.
• Auto-redact specific keywords, phrases, and personal information.
• Redact sensitive work-product or attorney-client information and apply redaction reason codes.
• Produce or export the relevant document set.