Identifying and redacting privileged information

摘要

Systems and methods for identifying and redacting privileged information automatically in electronic discovery documents such as emails are disclosed. In reviewing documents for discovery review, some documents have both privileged and non-privileged information. Significant cost savings are achieved in conducting electronic discovery by automatically identifying and redacting privileged content while preserving non-privileged information for production.

主权项

1. A method for redacting privileged information from an email thread, comprising:
identifying a set of email threads containing one or more potentially privileged emails; locating a particular email thread in the set of email threads containing correspondence with a non-privileged party; when the correspondence with the non-privileged party is a last-in-time email, marking the email thread as non-privileged; and when the correspondence with the non-privileged party is not the last-in-time email, automatically redacting emails from the email thread that are later in time than the correspondence with the non-privileged party.