Patent Document ID: 8073729
Application ID: 12242478
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of forecasting litigation discovery costs for a litigation matter that includes a number of business events, comprising: capturing historical business events for the litigation matter; aggregating the historical business events, with an aggregation module, and statistically analyzing the captured historical business events by matter type, time period, and business event type to produce statistical data specific to a time period; aggregating the statistical data for matter type and event type; extrapolating future business events using the statistical data provided by the statistical analysis to calculate probabilities of occurrence of future business events; forecasting an extrapolated volume of production at the time of a forecasted export event, wherein an export event is an event representing when a document page is being exported; and forecasting costs for future discovery from the extrapolated volume of production by applying a culling rate and average review cost.