Editor's Note: As members of CPR's Corporate ECA Commission, Messrs. Chanen ... Case Assessment Guidelines (CPR's ECA Toolkit). Editor: How extensively do you use early case assessment (ECA)? Are there types of disputes which are not suitable for ECA ...

Articles - 2009-11-02 00:00

embodied in early case assessment (ECA) that is described by CPR's CEO Kathy Bryan in her interview on the front cover of our August 2009 issue and set forth in more detail in CPR's ECA Guidelines (CPR's ECA Toolkit). Mr. Picker is a Fellow of both the International Academy of Mediators ...

Articles - 2009-11-02 00:00

There should be some discipline around the early assessment of a case. The ECA must provide the information ... and the law and the witnesses and the documents that you will know when you complete your ECA, you will know ... on incomplete, but good enough, information. ECA imposes the same process on a company's lawyers. ...

Articles - 2009-11-02 00:00

you folks decide to emphasize early case assessment (ECA)? D'Alencon: CaseCentral's ... re-use of work product has put us in what we now call the "ECA market" for at least five years. Part of the answer to your question goes back to examining the definition of ECA. In speaking to our ...

Articles - 2009-11-02 00:00

Editor: What is the role of an ECA tool? Armstrong/Ruckman: ECA tools can reduce the spend ... end up being responsive, and we have to review all 100,000 of those. With our ECA tool we might reduce ... be able, using ECA, to cull out about 60 percent of the documents you would traditionally have to review. ...

Articles - 2009-11-02 00:00

for our clients, and we do this by delivering eDiscovery capabilities from processing, ECA, analysis ...

Articles - 2010-03-02 00:00

models in eDiscovery. A good example is early case assessment, or ECA. Predictive coding puts the “assessment” back into ECA by enabling users to zoom in on the most relevant documents and make informed ...

Articles - 2012-01-24 07:51

or regulatory purposes, and I suspect that you wouldn't find one who says that Early Case Assessment (ECA ... dunk. Yet despite the obvious benefits, the adoption of ECA technology has been slow to rise. ... a clear definition of ECA has yet to emerge, causing many organizations to remain hesitant about ...

Articles - 2009-11-02 00:00

of an enhanced Early Case Assessment (ECA) service that integrates sophisticated concept search technology ... during litigation by significantly reducing the size of data sets requiring review. ECA provides ... EED's ECA service also provides guidance on identifying custodians, locating data, determining how much ...

News - 2009-03-01 00:00

skills; effective cost and risk containment steps; the need to document e-discovery efforts; the real ECA ...

Announcements - 2011-09-01 00:00