The document discusses metrics that are useful for planning and evaluating e-discovery projects, including source gigabytes per project, types of source media, de-duplication levels, custodians per project, percentage of data that is email, reviewers per project, gigabytes produced per project, and ratio of pages reviewed to produced. It then provides charts and analysis on trends in these metrics based on data from nearly 4,000 e-discovery cases over six years, finding that source data sizes and de-duplication levels are increasing while custodians, reviewers, and data produced per project are decreasing.

1. Metrics You Need to Know
Eric Robinson, Strategic Discovery Consultant, Kroll Ontrack
Sheldon Noel, Business Development Manager, Kroll Ontrack
January 14, 2015

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Speaker Bios
Eric Robinson, Strategic Discovery Consultant, Kroll Ontrack
Eric Robinson, JD, has more than 20 years of experience in litigation,
legal consulting, and project management. He regularly advises
clients on ediscovery matters in corporate audits, investigations,
formal litigation and regulatory matters. He is an expert in large,
complex, multi-party ediscovery projects and is a frequent speaker on
ediscovery and legal technology.
Sheldon Noel, Business Development Manager, Kroll Ontrack
Sheldon Noel is a Manager for Kroll Ontrack’s Southeast Business
Development team. Based in Washington, DC, he advises attorneys
and other professionals from law firms, corporations, and government
agencies on all facets of legal technology issues, including electronic
evidence and discovery matters. He is an attorney with more than
twelve years of experience in a unique combination of litigation,
regulatory and complex project management roles.

5. These metrics help practitioners plan and
execute ediscovery projects and may be used
to evaluate performance across the EDRM
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The Pulse Benchmarks
 Real-time and trended data that
show key trends and changes in
the ediscovery market
» Aggregated and normalized data from
matters handled by Kroll Ontrack
» Data compiled from nearly 4,000 cases
over a six-year span (2008–2013)

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Charts and GraphsSource Gigabytes per Project1
 Source gigabytes are on the rise as cases get bigger

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Charts and Graphs2 Types of Source Media
 Percentage of media types used for data
transmission has fluctuated

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Charts and Graphs3De-Duplication Levels
 Project level deduplication is on the rise

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Charts and Graphs
 Custodians per project has decreased since 2008
4Custodians per Project

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Charts and GraphsPercent of Data that is Email
 Email is the primary form of data processed
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Charts and GraphsReviewers per Project
 Average number of document reviewers per
project decreases
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Charts and Graphs
Gigabytes Produced
per Project7 8Pages Reviewed
v. Produced
 Gigabytes produced and ratio of pages
reviewed to produced per project decreases

13. Parting Thoughts
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Charts and GraphsConclusion
 What do these metrics say about the state of
ediscovery?
 Ediscovery Pulse metrics going forward:
» Information is fluid and ever-changing
» Kroll Ontrack will update these metrics regularly; stay tuned to
ediscovery.com
 Thoughts on additional metrics?

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Take a Look for Yourself
Download the Pulse Benchmarks report:
http://www.ediscovery.com/pulse-report/