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Mark Dingle

Mark Dingle

LitSavant was established by Mark Dingle in 2010.

Mark has been working in the litigation support industry for over 11 years. His past employment includes two top 20 law firms and one of the largest service providers. In these roles Mark has managed edisclosure projects on behalf of leading financial institutions and insurers as well as high profile energy and pharmaceutical companies.

Mark was a founding member of LiST and a member of the LiST group committees responsible for their proposed "Revised Disclosure Statement", "Data Exchange Protocol", "Draft Technology Questionnaire" and "Practice Direction for the use of IT in Civil Proceedings".

Mark is currently a member of the working party chaired by Senior Master Whitaker charged with drafting a practice direction governing the handling and disclosure of Electronically Stored Information (ESI). This draft Practice Direction was recently favourably referred to by Lord Justice Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs: Final Report.

EDD / Processing
Electronic Document Disclosure/Discovery: the process of preparing electronic documents for loading into a Litigation Support System.
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EDD / Processing

Electronic Document Disclosure/Discovery: the process of preparing electronic documents for loading into a Litigation Support System.  This involves extracting individual emails from mailboxes, unzipping zip and other archive files and extracting the metadata from them.  Metadata is often then inserted into a Load File to allow the data to be input into a litigation support system

Privilege claims
We note that the lawyers' notion that only document-by-document review will suffice is flatly wrong.
Hon. John M. Facciola and Jonathan M. Redgrave

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Privilege claims

We note that the lawyers' notion that only document-by-document review will suffice is flatly wrong. Studies have established that manual document-by-document review alone may be one of the poorest ways to find what one is looking for in a large data set.

Hon. John M. Facciola and Jonathan M. Redgrave
Asserting and Challenging Privilege Claims in Modern Litigation: The Facciola-Redgrave Framework citing George L. Paul & Jason R. Baron, Information Inflation: Can the Legal System Adapt?, 13 RICH. J.L. & TECH. 1, 24-25 (2007), available at http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v13i3/article10.pdf

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