Give the role a reliable starting point.
Confirm assignment scope, confidentiality controls, document handling procedures, and supervising counsel’s review instructions.
Discovery document administration
Discovery document administration
Organize assigned discovery materials within the review instructions and access controls your firm sets.
Book a free consultationScope, access, and coverage are agreed with your team.
The day-to-day work
A clear queue. A useful handoff.
Define the recurring work and the evidence your team needs to review it. These building blocks become a role-specific operating plan.
- Index received productions
- Maintain document references
- Track assigned review statuses
- Prepare missing-item and format notes
What comes back to your team
Work you can see and review.
Production index
A working record with source references, current status, and the person responsible for the next step.
Document tracking register
A focused view of missing inputs, unanswered questions, and items that need your decision.
Review administration notes
A dated handoff that distinguishes completed work from pending review and unresolved exceptions.
Put the role into practice
From the first brief to the final check.
A practical handoff
A production contains files that cannot be opened. The assistant records the affected references and alerts the attorney responsible for the production.
Illustrative workflow, not a client case study.Check the work before closing the loop.
Check completeness of the index, file integrity, matter access, and whether attorney review decisions are accurately reflected.
Your systems, your permissions
Fit the role to your environment.
Tool familiarity is considered when defining the role. Your team approves every platform, access level, and source of truth.
Relativity where authorizedCase management systemAdobe AcrobatSecure document repository
Platform names describe possible working environments, not endorsements or a promise of certification.
Inside the responsibility
What discovery document administration looks like in practice.
Organize assigned discovery materials within the review instructions and access controls your firm sets. The scope below connects each recurring responsibility to its source information and a checkable working record. Your team confirms the exact steps, templates, and approval limits before work starts.
Index received productions
Begin with the latest request and its approved source record. Check that the necessary information is present, identify the owner, and clarify conflicting details before making an update.
Working output: Production index. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
Maintain document references
Use the agreed template or checklist to carry out this task. Record what was checked and the date of the action so another team member can understand the current position.
Working output: Document tracking register. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
Track assigned review statuses
Keep this work connected to the wider queue. Note dependencies and unanswered questions, and use the agreed escalation route when the next step requires a decision.
Working output: Review administration notes. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
Prepare missing-item and format notes
Complete the task only when its agreed checks have passed. If an input is missing or an approval is pending, keep that status visible rather than treating the item as finished.
Working output: Production index. Include the source reference, current status, and next owner when an item remains open.
A handoff you can act on
Keep ready work separate from unresolved work.
A production contains files that cannot be opened. The assistant records the affected references and alerts the attorney responsible for the production.
Ready for review
The agreed task is complete and the supporting information is available in your approved system. Attach or link the relevant record and identify any final reviewer before closing the item.
Review against: Check completeness of the index, file integrity, matter access, and whether attorney review decisions are accurately reflected.
Waiting on an input
Name the missing information, where it was requested, and who is expected to supply it. Keep a follow-up date visible. An unanswered request should not disappear into a completed-work total.
Starting requirements: Confirm assignment scope, confidentiality controls, document handling procedures, and supervising counsel’s review instructions.
Needs your decision
Summarize the exception and the information already checked. Ask a specific question and route it to the authorized person. Keep the original source intact while the decision is pending.
Approval boundary: Relevance, privilege, responsiveness, objections, and disclosure decisions remain with supervising counsel.
Set the role up well
Agree what good work means before the first handoff.
Access and examples
Provide individual, approved access to the systems used for this responsibility. Share a completed example, an incomplete example, the relevant template, and a named reviewer. Sensitive working records belong in those systems, not in a public inquiry form.
Possible working environments include Relativity where authorized, Case management system, Adobe Acrobat, Secure document repository. Tool access and familiarity are confirmed as part of the role brief.
Review and workload measures
Agree which measures are useful for this queue: completed items, items awaiting an input, age of unresolved work, and corrections requested by the reviewer. Review these together with actual examples; volume alone does not establish that work is accurate.
Set response expectations from your operating needs. Coverage, turnaround targets, and the amount of work assigned are agreed separately rather than assumed from the service name.
Before you start
A few useful questions.
What should we prepare for discovery document administration?
Confirm assignment scope, confidentiality controls, document handling procedures, and supervising counsel’s review instructions.
How will we know what is complete?
Check completeness of the index, file integrity, matter access, and whether attorney review decisions are accurately reflected.
Which decisions remain with us?
Relevance, privilege, responsiveness, objections, and disclosure decisions remain with supervising counsel.
Can the role work in our existing tools?
We scope the role around your approved systems, including environments such as Relativity where authorized, Case management system, Adobe Acrobat. Access, training, and the final tool requirements are confirmed before the role begins.
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Start with the work
you want to hand over.
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