You want to reduce costs and maximize the value of every dollar spent. eDiscovery processes simplify everything from collecting, processing, normalizing, gathering, and hosting data to redacting data for transferring privileged information, providing productive web-based survey capabilities, and formatting select electronic records for production and analysis.
What is e-Discovery?
The essential aspect of e-Discovery refers to identifying and analyzing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a request for production in court proceedings or investigations. iBridge is highly experienced in processing every type of electronic record, including email, documents, presentations, databases, voicemail, audio and video files, social media, websites, and more.
The discovery process in a digital world is often complicated by the sheer volume of electronic data generated and stored. In addition, electronic documents are more dynamic, unlike printed evidence, and often contain metadata such as timestamps, author and recipient information, and file properties. Retaining the original content and metadata of the ESI is necessary to prevent allegations of theft or falsification of evidence in subsequent proceedings.
How does an expert in the eDiscovery market help you serve clients better
Having an expert eDiscovery partner has several benefits when your client or business uses any tech for document creation, handling, or storage.
Among those, the five most important benefits that iBridge LLC provides are:
- Minimizing Cost: While eDiscovery software offers more than just cost savings, it’s essential to understand how much time companies and departments can save with eDiscovery tools. A study found that Thomson Reuters takes about 51 minutes to find essential documents during proceedings. With the right eDiscovery technology, you can take it down to minutes. That time can then be allocated to higher-value tasks, allowing businesses and firms to provide better value to their customers.
- Minimizing Error: One of the challenges of e-Discovery is the numerous documents that need to be managed. A small case may produce only one or two gigabytes worth of records, but this data may be composed of hundreds of files, many of which may not be related to the case itself. This applies especially to electronic communications. For example, by simply CC’ing someone in an email, dozens or even hundreds of emails might be added to the production. Appropriate eDiscovery tools can help you screen this massive pile of data by checking the relevance of your documents and eliminating redundant or irrelevant information.
- Data Protection: Most legal teams understand the importance of protecting sensitive and personal information in many documents, but they do not always know the best way to protect it. Redacting content from a printed copy can be challenging enough, but digital files are fertile grounds for all sorts of mistakes. Without specialized eDiscovery software, legal departments and firms often commit traditional editing errors, such as black-boxing (redaction) the text or changing the reader’s color to match the document’s background, leaving the data visible to those who know how to access it. You can ensure that your organization complies with relevant privacy laws by editing sensitive content using an e-Discovery partner with the appropriate eDiscovery tools.
- Compliance Work: There are complex standards for preserving ESI to maintain document integrity, and failure to comply with these laws can result in significant fines and penalties. Digitizing a document is much easier to save than maintaining a physical file. Still, without a dedicated ESI e-discovery solution, the job can quickly become a hassle. Manually saving a file to a hard drive without a well-planned structure is a recipe for misplaced files. To make matters worse, improperly converting a file from one format to another can change or delete metadata which is essential for demonstrating ESI compliance.
- Better Accessibility to Data: Courts and legal entities often still rely on paper for many processes. However, the discovery process must be able to manage a variety of digital file formats when collecting documents, images, and other sources. Some legal departments believe they can rely on a patchwork of software to handle this data.
Even as digital solutions are gradually adopted in legal practices, there is still much to be done in the discovery process. With the dramatic increase in electronic documents over the last few decades, eDiscovery has emerged as the most misunderstood and mismanaged part of the litigation and investigation process. iBridge is here to help you understand and manage it properly.
iBridge’s eDiscovery services are designed to assist corporate legal departments and law firms increase operational efficiency without compromising quality or security. A thorough and experienced eDiscovery team and supporting technology can make or break your case, but it doesn’t have to break the bank. Talk to us about our eDiscovery services!
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