Patent ID: 7130858

Claim:
A system for electronically managing privileged and non-privileged documents in which a document may be managed as partially privileged where a portion of the document content is privileged and the remainder of the document content is non-privileged, comprising: a privileged schema for storing privileged document content including the full content of partially privileged documents, the privileged document content is document content tat has been identified as being immune from discovery pursuant to at least one of attorney client privilege and attorney work product doctrine; a non-privileged schema for storing non-privileged document content including the non-privileged content only of partially privileged documents, where the privileged and non-privileged schemas are independent of one another so that privileged and non-privileged document content is not commingled, whereby privileged document content is protected from inadvertent production and waiver of at least one of attorney client privilege and attorney work product doctrine; and means for copying the full content of an individual partially privileged document to the privileged schema; and means for removing the privileged document content of the individual partially privileged document from the non-privileged schema.