What is Electronic Discovery?

Electronic Discovery is the process of extracting and organizing data from workstations, servers, PDAs and other electronic equipment for use in litigation.

Now more than ever, attorneys need to the abilty to extract compile and make sense of the virtual maze of potential evidence buried in emails, spreadsheets, word processing programs, databases and countless other file types. To make this hurdle possible you need a certified professional. TR Legal is your locally certified source. Not only will you have the information but it will be formatted into a searchable user-friendly data base.

Support: TR Legal will fully assist you in the complex process of electronic discovery. We will be there from beginning to end to help you plan and implement the discovery process including collection, review and production of your data using the latest in electronic discovery software.

Intake of Evidence: Your data is immediately copied and preserved profiled and logged into a database for tracking and chain-of-custody.

Preflight: TR Legal will help you target exactly which files should be processed, if any files need special processing, and which files should be ignored, if any.

Searching: One of the challenges to Electronic Discovery is the overwhelming amount of information you have available, most of which is irrelavent.

File Identification: TR Legal will determine file types and use this information to properly format and convert your documents with the highest possible quality.

Metadata Extraction: Metadata is the descriptor of each file that will give the date it was created, author and so forth. TR Legal can extract this inforamation and make it available for all your files available in many formats. This information is an excellent tool to assist you in selecting documents for review.

Data Set Reduction: TR Legal will help you filter through the data by file types, date or some key words. This initial filtering will give you options that will reduce the amount of data you for your review saving you time and money.

Duplicate Reduction: Duplicate documents are commonly found in the electronic discovery process. TR Legal can you find and cull them out of your data set when applicable.

Special Formatted Documents: Some file types such as spreadsheets, emails or PowerPoint® documents require special treatments to view them accurately. TR Legal will make this transition simple and pain free.

Review: TR Legal returns your data in native PDF or TIFF format or makes it available to you in Summation® database.

Production: TR Legal can reproduce these documents as blowbacks with our high speed printers and on CD for use on at your workstation complete with Bates numbering if desired.

 

Electronic Discovery

• Corporate lawyers need to advise on document retention and destruction policies
• Family law finds internet usage relevant and important