Extract from IPRO’s article “Early Case Assessment | 6 Best Practices to Help Your Law Firm Efficiently Perform ECA”
Introduction
When a case first comes across your law firm’s proverbial desk, you must quickly determine what direction it is likely to go in and how you should handle it. That way, you can give your client the best strategic advice possible. In other words, you need to perform early case assessment (ECA).
When done well, ECA is like a crystal ball that gives you a sneak peek into the future life of a case, allowing you to glean all the insight you need to formulate an effective strategy and efficiently handle the matter to its correct conclusion.
In this post, we’ll discuss the basics of early case assessment (ECA) as well as early data assessment (EDA), an essential component of ECA. We’ll then share six best practices your law firm can adopt to handle ECA more efficiently and effectively.
The Basics of Early Case Assessment
Before we dive into specifics about how best to handle ECA, let’s take a step back to define ECA and EDA and discuss how the two relate.
