ECi - Early Case intelligence

Introduction – remember ECA?

There was (and indeed still is) a lot of noise made about Early Case Assessment ‘(or ‘ECA’) as an approach to identifying the potential issues, merits, strengths, weaknesses in client’s documents as a way of informing case strategy for litigation, arbitration, negotiations, mediation etc.

Given the potential upside of such an approach, why is it so rarely employed?

ECA – its aspirations and limitations

While ECA offered a potentially useful tool for litigators and clients, it had a number of key limitations:

• There was still a relatively expensive process to get the documents processed and into a platform.
• Once you had the documents in the platform you had to run keyword searches and then review the results … as such it was expensive, slow and difficult to justify to clients.
• While more ‘traditional’ GenAI approaches can overcome some of these limitations, even they are not as cost-effective as they could be and still involve incurring LLM costs to analyse non-relevant or low-value documents.

It seemed as though ECA would never achieve success in a way that was anticipated many years ago, until now …

ECi – a new approach, driven by the very best technology

We have called our new approach ECi (for Early Case Intelligence); as we are not only using the very best in artificial intelligence, to gain the most relevant intelligence for your matter; we are utilising the technology in an intelligent manner that saves significant costs and time and finally delivering the results that have been sought for such a long time.

Results and costs

Imagine if you were able to analyse in details say 100,000 documents from your client, without the need for any significant review process, without the need for keywords and without having to consider irrelevant or low-value documents? Imagine if that entire process could be completed in a single day and for the same cost as a day of Associate time!

Gaining detailed assessment of each issue, with the most relevant supporting documents, ready to inform your strategy

How does it work?

We will support you and the client throughout the process, liaise with them to obtain the necessary data, build your ECi collection in our unique, proprietary, GenAI technology and work with you on prompting to help ensure you obtain the results you are looking for.

Not only does its unique document analysis approach produce more cost-effective an timely results than other technologies, its powerful reporting functionality allows you to summarise the entirety of your documents to gain a simple and informative overview of your position.