Metrics You Need to Know

Eric Robinson, Strategic Discovery Consultant, Kroll Ontrack

Sheldon Noel, Business Development Manager, Kroll Ontrack

January 14, 2015

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Speaker Bios

Eric Robinson, Strategic Discovery Consultant, Kroll OntrackEric Robinson, JD, has more than 20 years of experience in litigation, legal consulting, and project management. He regularly advises clients on ediscovery matters in corporate audits, investigations, formal litigation and regulatory matters. He is an expert in large, complex, multi-party ediscovery projects and is a frequent speaker on ediscovery and legal technology.

Sheldon Noel, Business Development Manager, Kroll OntrackSheldon Noel is a Manager for Kroll Ontrack’s Southeast Business Development team. Based in Washington, DC, he advises attorneys and other professionals from law firms, corporations, and government agencies on all facets of legal technology issues, including electronic evidence and discovery matters. He is an attorney with more than twelve years of experience in a unique combination of litigation, regulatory and complex project management roles.

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These metrics help practitioners plan and execute ediscovery projects and may be used to evaluate performance across the EDRM

The Pulse Benchmarks

Real-time and trended data that show key trends and changes in the ediscovery market» Aggregated and normalized data from

matters handled by Kroll Ontrack

» Data compiled from nearly 4,000 cases over a six-year span (2008–2013)

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Charts and GraphsSource Gigabytes per Project1 Source gigabytes are on the rise as cases get bigger

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Charts and Graphs2 Types of Source Media

Percentage of media types used for data transmission has fluctuated

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Charts and Graphs3 De-Duplication Levels

Project level deduplication is on the rise

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Charts and Graphs

Custodians per project has decreased since 2008

4 Custodians per Project

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Charts and Graphs Percent of Data that is Email

Email is the primary form of data processed

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Charts and Graphs Reviewers per Project

Average number of document reviewers per project decreases

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Charts and Graphs

Gigabytes Produced per Project7 8 Pages Reviewed

v. Produced

Gigabytes produced and ratio of pages reviewed to produced per project decreases

Parting Thoughts

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Charts and GraphsConclusion

What do these metrics say about the state of ediscovery?

Ediscovery Pulse metrics going forward:» Information is fluid and ever-changing

» Kroll Ontrack will update these metrics regularly; stay tuned to ediscovery.com

Thoughts on additional metrics?

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Take a Look for Yourself

Download the Pulse Benchmarks report:

http://www.ediscovery.com/pulse-report/