3 DE-DUPLICATION OPTIONS: HOW DO YOU CHOOSE?

When collecting raw ESI from multiple individuals, there are bound to be tremendous amounts of duplicative documents. In company-wide e-mail chains, for example, a message is sent to multiple recipients and stored within each individual’s mailbox. Depending on your organization’s data retention policies, copies of the same file might also be found on the employee’s hard drive, file server, or company backup tape.When collecting raw ESI from multiple individuals, there are bound to be tremendous amounts of duplicative documents.

Near Deduplication and Email Threading

Deduplication is just one of the tools to help you save time and money.  As mentioned last week, data collections are growing bigger and bigger every day.  Deduplication will help you identify and exclude those documents so your reviewers spend less time reading the same document over and over again, but how can we take this to the next level?  That’s where Near Deduplication and Email Threading come in.  The time saved by identifying near duplicates and email threads can considerably streamline your review process and maintain consistency on how documents are reviewed.