Early Case Assessment

Once case data has been collected, the traditional approach to early case assessment forces corporations and law firms to launch massive review efforts that entail several attorneys or paralegals who are allocated portions of the data for manual review. These reviewers spend many days sifting through irrelevant messages and redundant data. As a result, early case assessments aren't actually performed early. In fact, weeks often pass before attorneys can understand the true context of a case and determine the appropriate case strategy.

Clearwell’s early case assessment approach is about working smarter, not harder.

With Clearwell, attorneys complete early case assessment well before manual review. Inside and outside counsel teams use Clearwell’s ediscovery search to rapidly navigate through discussion threads, custodial documents, and message attachments to get a better sense of their position on each case. The Clearwell approach enables early case assessments to be performed much earlier in the electronic data discovery process, which leads to superior case knowledge, improved case strategy decisions, and better preparation for the Meet and Confer.

With early case assessments performed in Clearwell, corporations and law firms get answers fast to questions such as:

• Can we quickly find a smoking gun?
• Can we determine who knew what and when?
• What are key terms and date ranges to include in the e-discovery plan?
• Are we sure that we have identified all the custodians relevant to the case?

By performing an early case assessment to answer these questions (and more) early in the litigation process, companies and law firms can develop an informed settle or go-to-court case strategy, potentially saving millions of dollars in the process.

Learn more about the return on investment that Clearwell delivers. In addition to the faster early case assessment, Clearwell also delivers following benefits:

• Significantly lower processing costs by quickly ediscovery culling-down case datasets to only what is relevant.

• A sharp reduction in review costs from the reduced number of documents sent to attorneys for review.