Patent ID: 8200690

Claim:
A method for leveraging historical data to determine affected entities, comprising: receiving at least one initial scope parameter for a current legal matter of an enterprise via a communications interface of at least one digital device; deriving a first list of affected entities associated with the current legal matter based on the at least one initial scope parameter, an affected entity comprising at least one of an employee who may have relevant data and an affected system where potentially relevant information may reside; executing instructions stored in memory on a processor to: access historical data associated with the first list of affected entities derived based on the at least one initial scope parameter, the historical data comprising generated information based on tracking of actions performed within the enterprise as depicted in an enterprise map that represents relationships between people, repositories, organizations, and documents of the enterprise; and determine one or more refined scope parameter based on the historical data by cross-referencing the at least one initial scope parameter with at least one of the historical data and the enterprise map; and providing a second list of affected entities based at least on the one or more refined scope parameter to the at least one digital device via the communications interface, each affected entity on the second list of affected entities listed also on the first list of affected entities.