Managed Document Review Is A Must

By Author: Cathy Hiycks
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Document review is quickly becoming more and more relevant and necessary in not only the business world, but also the legal world. It's is very simple job that requires highly trained professionals. Reviewing a document seems simple, but actually finding the important information is harder than it seems. Before choosing a company or individual to perform your document review, you should always check their credentials or how the firm you are going with hired this particular person. Many firms will hire employees from a third party, meaning that they (the firm) haven't actually seen the document reviewer in action, but are simply taking the word of a third party saying that this person is competent. It would be best to hire someone who isn't being hired from a third party, but is experienced, trusted, and hired by a firm themselves.Now that this housekeeping item is out of the way, we can start to discuss what a document review actually does. There are many steps when reviewing documents. The reason one is probably hiring a document reviewer is because several hundred or even a thousand documents need to be sifted through ...
... and searched meticulously. This is impossible for a small amount of people with the time constraints of court dates. A document reviewer will be able to access email threads, identify duplicate information that shouldn't be reviewed twice, and provide tools that will make the whole review process better. Again, e-discovery software companies are making document reviewers popular; they are quickly becoming a strong part of the e-discovery team. Optimization is one of the main goals of e-discovery, and will be a main goal of document reviewers as well. A document reviewer should promise the following skill sets: high quality work, the work must be done quickly, there should be no unpredictable or hidden costs (as often there is), and most importantly, the reviewers should find defensible results; this is the most important job of a document reviewer. Furthermore, they should give you some guarantee the security of the documents they are reviewing. If they have to review sensitive documents, they should provide some type of security from theft. All of this talk is very technical and boring, and I'm sure the reader is thinking, "show me the money! How does this help me?" Document reviewers benefit clients in many ways, the most importantly being saving money in the long run. Having professionals doing a quality job is better than amateurs attempting to do the same job at a lower price because professionals will yield positive results 99.9% of the time. Other benefits include the client having access to a team and proven technology that will find important information within the documents being reviewed. Even after this article, you probably still have no clue what managed document reviewers actually do. To put in in layman's terms, they find the needle in the haystack, which in turns keeps your company organized and untouchable in court. Managed document reviews are of the future, and are needed much more than you think.For more information, I recommend FTI managed document review solutions.