Data Collection 
As technological advancements have utterly transformed corporate communication and information storage practices, electronic data has emerged as the default resource of litigation preparedness. Today, electronic discovery and collection is the vital first step in taking the raw material of data and building a rock-solid, defensible case. It is true that when faced with legal action all corporations and firms share the ultimate aim of smart and thorough data management. Crucially, however, Edox understands that the paths to reach that common goal can differ. Your company is unique. So is your case. Shouldn’t your ediscovery plan be unique as well?
Edox takes a proactive, consultative approach to every case, meeting with clients and outside counsel to learn how best to apply proven methodologies of data collection. Our various collection platforms allow for a versatile approach to gathering data. And through years of experience Edox has established and refined strict guidelines and quality control operations that handle ESI populations both small and large, simple and complex. Through close collaboration and the use of Early Case Assessment, we manage client expectations and develop search terms that safely reduce data populations for relevance. Culling an entire data population down to what is essential to the case, Edox offers huge time and cost savings.
Early Case Assessment
Rapid technological advances have spurred tremendous growth in the ability to accumulate and store electronic data. In turn, these advances have also created a greater need for attorneys to harness all that information when initiating the discovery process. Edox employs Early Case Assessment as a crucial and cost-saving tool in the eDiscovery process (as well as in paper integration) to provide you with a valuable tool for litigation budgeting.
Early Case Assessment allows for safe and substantial reduction of data populations through summary reports generated by various search criteria – file size or type, duplicates and near duplicates, dates, emails, email strings and attachments, media, and more. Edox’s expert consultants can analyze this information and provide advance snapshots of what various paths of data processing and document review will look like in terms of scope and cost. Attorneys are armed with a smart, safe filter to reduce a potentially unwieldy and unnecessary amount of information into an essential pool of data relevant to building the best defensible case strategy.
Early Case Assessment Services:
- Detect Duplicate Documents
- Extract Metadata, Email and Attachments
- Generate Hash Values
- Analyze Archives (.zip, .rar, etc)
- Create Database of All Inventory (Documents, Emails, etc)
- Generate Numerous Report Types for Data Populations
Culling/Key Searches
After Early Case analysis, clients are in position to develop culling and search strategies to further pinpoint desired data sets in an even more manageable population. Summaries and reports are generated through various criteria, bringing to focus and highlighting only the types of information deemed relevant.
Report Types:
- Document File Type or Date Summary
- Email Conversation or Attachment Summary
- Email “To” and/or “From” Summary
- Folders and Media Summary
Data Processing
The past two decades have brought staggering growth of corporate data pools, and an accompanying explosion in all the technologies used to handle it. Often faced with technical complexities and large-scale challenges, intelligent electronic discovery process means having a project management team in lockstep with client priorities. In the data processing phase, our managers continue to ask questions- what are the needs of the case? What is the style of the case? What should the final product set look like? – to understand those priorities and create the smartest plan of action. Learning your specific case requirements and bringing our experience to bear allows for a mastery over all that information. We leverage our agility to customize your ESI and present data sets in a manner most appropriate to your case needs.
Edox Data Processing Services:
- Early Case Analysis
- Various Data Processing Platforms
- Flexible Search Technologies
- Electronic De-duplication and ‘Near Identical Data’ De-duplication
- Communicative, Dedicated Project Managers
- Multiple, Concurrent Server Operations for Accelerated Speed
- Back End Hardware for Top Level Support
Data Conversion
Constant competition and development in the computer hardware and software industries have benefitted virtually everyone doing business. One such benefit is the ever-increasing power and ease of information storage. Then there are the seemingly endless software choices and updates available to meet corporations’ specific needs.
Downsides of this great progress are the inevitable problems that occur in compatibility when sharing electronic information, and hurdles that arise when trying to access older information. All kinds of challenges present themselves: files won’t open, applications are outdated or not licensed, legacy files are locked in another world, opposing counsel’s information leverages foreign software.
Still, the reality remains- you need your data and metadata collected and processed in a secure, defensible manner. Edox data conversion services offer trained IT experts that translate incompatible file formats and legacy information into usable data. All kinds of file types- common or not, simple or complex- are converted to formats that bolster the information pool you’ll use to build your case. edox exports all manner of information- images into modern formats like TIFF, PDF, MS Word .doc, .txt and searchable PDFs. Metadata is exported into load files for lit support software. Whatever the particular challenge, we offer an unwavering pursuit of the acquisition and processing of all the information your case demands.
