Benefit Your Organization Regarding All Legal Proceedings Through E-Discovery!

Electronic discovery is the method of discovering and retrieving electronic data. Nowadays, most of the companies are storing its essential data in the form of electronic format, in devices like CD ROMs, DVDs, hard disks, floppy disks, and others. Information is also being sent across the globe in electronic formats via e-mail or Internet as the speed is fast and the cost is less. Yet, this may be the reason for some of the data to be lost or emended. E-discovery Florida enables the retrieval of such electronic information from the huge amounts of data available. One more essential feature of electronic discovery is in litigation or legal proceedings. Electronic discovery can even bring out electronic proofs that has been tampered with.

There are different companies today that are serving with electronic discovery services. The electronic document discovery industry was worth $1.3 billion in 2004. Electronic discovery includes the utilization of various software tools and techniques for data recovery. These techniques make data discovery not only highly fast, but also efficient and cost-effectious. These companies serve encompassing packages of all kinds of data management and discovery equipments. These include e-mail analytical tools, search and filtering tools, revaluation and redaction tools, task assignment and case management capacity, and concept folders for easy tagging and retention of documents. These make information assemblage, media restoration, data processing, document production and reporting more economical. Some limited electronic discovery services consider proof collection and processing services.

Many electronic discovery services are especially designed for attorneys and law firms, as they are the most ordinary potential users of this technique. Few companies have data discovery capacities of over 5 million pages per day. Many services are customized design as per the needs of the client.

User files, backup media, spreadsheets, CAD/CAM/CAE and graphics, personnel records, policy and procedure manuals, software and source code, internet and intranet content, internet service providers, fax servers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), telephone /security / network activity systems, cell phones, pagers, voice/video mail and special databases such as CRM or ERP databases are the typical sources of data. Electronic discovery has to be done by experts utilizing proper equipments, so that the data, especially the meta-data of the document, remains integral. Once the documents are extracted, they are processed through de-duplication.

Electronic discovery has both pros and cons. Increasing levels of electronic data retention, expensive lawsuits and strict laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley, which need corporate archiving, are some of the reasons for the accretive utilization of electronic discovery. Information collected from electronic sources can be used in litigation that can make or break companies. There are special software programs that modify easy and efficient retrieval of any kind of data from anywhere. There are some companies that specialize in providing electronic discovery services.

Elijah specializes in providing computer forensic and e-discovery services to law firms and legal departments in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Texas and other locations.