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Our company's document review for a simple contract dispute took eight months to finish.
We had a vendor claim we broke a payment term, so our legal team pulled every email and file from the past three years. The review platform, Relativity, kept flagging thousands of irrelevant personal emails that slowed everything down. Has anyone found a good way to cut down on that noise early in the process?
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grant83820d ago
Start by having IT set up a simple script that pulls only emails with the vendor's domain or specific project codes from the archive. That alone will ditch 90% of the junk like automated birthday alerts or company-wide spam. Then, before it goes to legal, run a filter for common noise words like "lunch," "meeting," and "out of office." It's not foolproof, but it keeps the review platform from blowing up with stuff no one needs to see.
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caseys5220d ago
Yeah, the real killer is letting legal run the whole show from day one. We started having IT do a first pass with simple date filters and keyword blocks before anything even hits the review platform. It cuts out all the lunch order threads and system alerts that Relativity would choke on. It's not perfect, but it keeps the lawyers from billing hours to read someone's pizza preferences.
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