What are the Early case assessment and fixed cost eDiscovery in legal risk management?

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but early case assessment means that a lawyer and/or investigator is going to check out your case and see if it is financially worthwhile. eDiscovery is when you request docs from the other side (or vice versa) and they are scanned in (or in email, .doc, etc... form) and transferred to you over the internet or on disc rather than paper forms. It's much cheaper, but I have not heard of fixed cost (I work ediscovery litigation support). Usually it is based upon the number of pages or documents. What are the Early case assessment and fixed cost eDiscovery in legal risk management?
Early case assessment and fixed cost eDiscovery are two areas in legal risk management that require specific attention. Fixed cost eDiscovery is designed to address the financial risk associated with large legal cases.





Early case assessment is done by an organization to manage the organizations legal risk exposure. Early case assessment (ECA) can be considered the artillery in the armory that legal counsel takes to their meet-confer meetings. ECA includes information about custodians, context and concepts and will help legal counsel manage the outcome of the meet-and-confer meetings. However, it is not supposed to be this way.