E-Discovery Forum

[Anonymous User]

I have one year experience at a firm in New York. In my lateral interview at another firm they asked if I had e-discovery experience. What exactly is e-discovery and what do attorneys do on these cases?

[gregfootball2001]

It's not a type of case - they're referring to electronic discovery, where you conduct a discovery review through a computer program instead of just reading paper copies. Something like Relativity. How did you do discovery at your old firm?

[Anonymous User]

It's not a type of case - they're referring to electronic discovery, where you conduct a discovery review through a computer program instead of just reading paper copies. Something like Relativity. How did you do discovery at your old firm?

Through the hard paper copies.

[Anonymous User]

It's not a type of case - they're referring to electronic discovery, where you conduct a discovery review through a computer program instead of just reading paper copies. Something like Relativity. How did you do discovery at your old firm?

Through the hard paper copies.

What do you do in Relativity besides just reading papers on a screen? I don't understand why that would be a hiring requirement if it sounds that basic.

[gregfootball2001]

It's not a type of case - they're referring to electronic discovery, where you conduct a discovery review through a computer program instead of just reading paper copies. Something like Relativity. How did you do discovery at your old firm?

Through the hard paper copies.

What do you do in Relativity besides just reading papers on a screen? I don't understand why that would be a hiring requirement if it sounds that basic.

They may have been asking if you know how to use any of the programs - if you know how to work with large data sets (1M+ docs), find and exclude privileged docs, key word searches, timeline searches, etc. Or maybe they wanted to know if you had ever led a discovery team. It's the difference between a law library and Westlaw. Both are just for reading cases, but there's a difference.

[hlss09]

It's not a type of case - they're referring to electronic discovery, where you conduct a discovery review through a computer program instead of just reading paper copies. Something like Relativity. How did you do discovery at your old firm?

Through the hard paper copies.

What do you do in Relativity besides just reading papers on a screen? I don't understand why that would be a hiring requirement if it sounds that basic.

Relativity, Disco, etc. are easy enough to use, but mastering these programs in a way that gives you a competitive edge is quite difficult. If you don't include key search terms, for instance, you may miss critical hot docs in a 1M+ doc review. A lot of firms expect associates to have at least some working knowledge of these programs.