Effective Ediscovery Vendor & Tool

Our entire firm uses DISCO [eDiscovery] as our go-to ediscovery vendor, to review and process documents produced during discovery. It has been valuable in that role, and we continue to use it whenever possible in our cases.

The main screen is useful. It lists the documents with columns containing "Info," "Excerpts," Bates numbers, etc. The Info and Excerpts, in particular are a valuable way to quickly eliminate some documents from a search, without having to actually fully open and review them. I'm a big fan of the build-a-search tool, too. It's hard to keep all the search terms and parameters straight between different services, and DISCO makes that easy. I appreciate that DISCO recognizes and expressly notes where there seems to be a missing document in a family/chain. That helps identify gaps and potential patterns.

The cost is predictable, which enables us to assess it and make informed decisions. It's tough to ask for more than that.

DISCO is simple and quick when it comes to reviewing, which is what I use it for. Uploading documents is generally easy, too, although typically has to go through an outside vendor.

I have not used these services.

We're a small law firm, so don't have a large support staff to handle in-house much of the ediscovery process. DISCO has enabled us to outsource portions of that, which lets our team focus on the more substantive work.