Veritas Alta™ eDiscovery User Guide

To create a case

1. On the eDiscovery tab, click Cases.
2. Click Add Case.

   The Add New Case dialog box appears.

3. Under Case Status, specify the following details:

   Case Status	Select the Active option.
   Legal Hold	By default, this option is set to OFF. Switch this field to ON or OFF to toggle the options whether to apply a case-level legal hold to case items.
   Number of custodians	Displays number of custodians associated with the case.
   Number of Items	Displays number of items associated with the case.
   Expiration Date	Displays case expiration date.
   Number of Items on Legal Hold	Displays number of items in a case that are on legal hold.

4. Under Case Details, specify the following details:

   Apply Legal Hold	Click Yes to toggle the option between Yes and No. The Yes option applies a case-level legal hold to items, and is the default value. Note: This option keeps all items for the case on legal hold until the administrator removes the legal hold.
   Name	Enter a unique name for the case.
   Description	Optionally enter a description for the case.
   Expiration date	Select Never Expires, or enter an expiration date for the case. After the expiration date a case's status changes to inactive. An inactive case becomes read-only for reviewers, but all its associated data and any hold remains intact. The eDiscovery Administrator can revert an inactive case back to active status.
   Filing date	Specify the case filing date.
   Case Type	Specify the type of case.
   Department	Provide the department details.
   Matter Number	Provide the matter number.
   Court/Docket	Provide the court and docket number.
   Additional Staff Members	Provide the additional staff member names involved in the case.
   Case Notes	Provide a note for a case, if required.

5. Under Custodians for Case, do one of the following:

   • Select All Custodians to include all the archive accounts as accounts that may be searched for this case.

     Note:

     If under Case Status, the Legal Hold option is set to ON, and under Custodians for Case, you select the All Custodians option, the application displays the following message:

     

     This alert message recommends you to select specific custodians instead of all custodians to avoid performance issues. However, if you are sure about selecting the All Custodians option, click Yes. Else, click No and select the Select Custodians option.

     When you select the All Custodians option, the Add Custodians option remains disabled.

   • Select Select Custodians to choose the archive accounts that you want to include for search. The Add Custodians option gets enabled. Click Add Custodians and select the required custodians, then click Save. The Add/Remove Custodians dialog box appears as shown in the sample image below.

     

     • Expand the Selected Custodians to view your selection. To remove the selected custodian, click the Delete icon beside it and then click Update.

     • Expand the Manage Custodians to search and select the available custodians across the pages and click Update.

6. Under Reviewers for Case, click Add Reviewers to choose the reviewers for this case, and then click Save.
7. Under Customizations, select the review statuses that need be available to the reviewers when they review each message.

   Under Set Review Status to, do any of the following:

   • Select Default and click View to use the default list of review statuses in their default order.

   • Select Custom and click Choose Review Status Tags to choose which review statuses are to be used with this case.

8. Under Redaction Reasons, select the redaction reasons that need to be available to the reviewers when they review each message.

   Under Set Redaction Reasons to, do any of the following:

   • Select Default and click View to preview the by default selected redaction reasons.

   • Select Custom and click Choose Redaction Reasons Status to choose the redaction reasons to be used with this case. Then, click View to preview the selected redaction reasons.

9. Click Save Case to create the case with your selected options.