E-Discovery Vendor
Working with a vendor helps to avoid several pitfalls of trying to produce the electronic documents. Here are a few issues that a qualified vendor can help you work through:
- Preservation of evidence. The e-discovery process protects the original form of the evidence including metadata.
- Reduction of duplicate documents. The e-discovery process reduces the duplicates so the attorney only needs to reviews a single document with a slip sheet where the duplicate(s) reside.
- Eliminates the need to own multiple software licenses. It would be necessary for the attorney to purchase software licenses for multiple programs to review documents for privilege. In addition, opening documents in their native program could alter the original evidence.
- Legacy hardware. The most common legacy hardware issue is backup tapes where there are relevant documents on a tape but the tape machine is no longer available. The e-discovery vendor can convert the data from the tape onto a hard drive (or other media).
- Legacy software. The most common issue is when a company has migrated its software, such as e-mail software or design software, and the company no longer has the software to open documents. The e-discovery vendor can open the files and include the documents for the production.
- Review Speed. The e-discovery process presents all documents in a standard format allowing a quick review of all documents regardless of the documents original format.
The Center for Computer Forensics, with its many years of computer forensic services, is uniquely qualified to handle e-discovery productions. We handle the evidence presented for e-discovery production with the same diligence that we handle evidence in our computer forensics lab.
These days, having a competent and credentialed partner handling electronic evidence is a significant competitive advantage especially with e-discovery productions.
