Common use of Duplicates Clause in Contracts

Duplicates. The Parties will perform de-duplication of ESI within and across custodians according to MD5 or SHA-1 hash values and will produce only a single copy of identical ESI. Entire document families may constitute duplicate ESI. De-duplication shall not ELECTRONICALLY FILED - 2024 Aug 22 11:08 AM - CHARLESTON - COMMON PLEAS - CASE#2023CP1002574 break up document families. All custodians of a de-duplicated document must be identified in the “Duplicate Custodians” or “Additional Custodians” metadata field. If the parties de-duplicate ESI, they shall provide custodian associations in a semi-colon delimited field that includes duplicate custodian name information for the duplicate custodians. An overlay data file shall be produced after every rolling production to account for updated duplicate custodian information in the Custodian field.