Extract from Gina Jurva’s article “Solving the Blank Page Problem in Ediscovery”
When Kostantino “Dean” Athanasopoulos walks into a conference room these days, he doesn’t see the stacks of banker’s boxes that once defined legal discovery. As the eLitigation Technology Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia—and a recipient of numerous prestigious awards—Athanasopoulos has spent years navigating the shift from paper to digital evidence.
But with that shift came a new challenge.
“Early in my career, we’d line up boxes and review them one by one. It was tedious, but straightforward,” Athanasopoulos told me at a recent Everlaw event. “Contrast that with today, where teams are given access to vast amounts of digital information — terabytes of it — and often face an initial sense of utter bewilderment. They don’t know where to start. That’s the blank page problem.”
Athanasopoulos recently shared his strategy for overcoming the blank page problem on eDiscovery Today. We recently sat down with him to walk through his approach to overcoming this modern discovery dilemma.
