How eDiscovery Services Can Help A Solo Practitioner or Small Firm In this eDiscovery age, more and more important evidence is digital. Even small law firms may find themselves in need of information that is electronically stored. Electronically stored information, or ESI, encompasses many different types of documents. They may include emails, presentations, databases, voicemail,…
Metadata – What is it and why should you care Many people have no idea what metadata is, why it matters, or what is can do in the real world. In it’s simplest form, metadata is the information about a computer file. Now, it is not the content of the file, say your recipe list…
Wearable Devices Pose New Challenges For eDiscovery The rising popularity of wearable devices with internet access has changed the way people access that information. The processing of eDiscovery is no exception to this impact. According to Futuresource Consulting, a market analysis firm, 12.4 million wearable devices were shipped in Q3 of 2014, which is an increase…
The New Age of Electronic Discovery Electronic Discovery News – Court cases are won and lost based on evidence, but the nature of evidence has changed in the electronic age. Evidence is no longer confined to paper documents. It now includes a broad spectrum of electronic materials. Emails, voicemail, instant message chats, website visits, scanned…
How To Determine Whether To Outsource eDiscovery Or Keep It In-House When conducting eDiscovery for a case, you can easily become inundated with material. More and more companies are transitioning to a paperless business model across the board. The process of sifting through electronic evidence, such as corporate emails, databases, digital files, web history, and…
In the legal field, finding evidence is the name of the game. Between the paper documents, photos, and any electronic materials that offer valuable insights into the case, a team of lawyers could fill a warehouse when preparing a major case. To minimize the large volume of paper that goes along with preparing for trial…