E-Discovery Innovation: Cutting Costs With Relevancy Quick Peek Agreements

Description

The exponential growth of information subject to discovery and the escalating costs of e-discovery are staggering. Counsel must find new and creative ways to minimize cost while not placing confidential information in jeopardy.

Relevancy quick peek agreements are a unique opportunity to reduce unnecessary expense and review. Also called first look agreements, they allow plaintiffs to review an agreed upon set of defendant data prior to production and designate what they want produced.

Rather than reviewing Gigabytes to Terabytes of irrelevant information to identify the relevant subset, defendants can review the identified documents, produce those they agree are relevant, and negotiate or move to exclude those determined irrelevant.

The new Federal Rule of Evidence 502 supports this approach, providing additional protections should inadvertent waiver of privilege occur during the relevancy quick peek review period.

Listen as our authoritative panel of litigation attorneys examines what the Federal Rules say on relevancy quick peek agreements, the implications of search terms and technology, security considerations, and best practices for drafting and using first look agreements to contain costs.