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Litigation
Consider the following scenario.
A document request lands on your desk. You notice that it's conspicuously thin. You wonder if your opponent has grown weary of protracted discovery battles, and has instead decided to narrow the requests to the key issues of the case. But what's different? You flip through the pages. The requests seem to include all the familiar boilerplate language outlining the description of potentially discoverable documents and the identity of dozens of document custodians. Then you notice that most of the old document requests have been replaced with those two small but frightening words... "backup tapes."
Lucky for you, Applied Discovery is a step ahead of the times.
Our comprehensive e-discovery service offering is designed to help you navigate the sometimes daunting world of electronic discovery. Because when you really think about it, the process of discovery hasn't actually changed—only the storage medium and review tools for the documents are different. With this in mind, simply follow the discovery process you already know, but leave the tools and technology to us.
Working with us is easy—we provide services to assist every step of the way. A complete electronic discovery service offering:
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A complete electronic discovery service offering
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Data Gathering
- Guidance for internal IT resources or on-site, professional assistance to collect data from client's computers, including network servers, desktop PCs, laptops, backup tapes, handheld devices, and any other storage medium.
- Cost-effective strategies for identifying, gathering, and preparing only necessary information for review.
Media Restoration
- Retrieval of information from backup tapes or legacy systems, from standard email and word processing programs to arcane systems and uncommon file types.
- Proven, cost effective strategies for narrowing the set of potentially responsive documents.
Data Processing
- Electronic documents are processed in industry-standard PDF format, with complete text and meta data preserved and indexed for search accuracy.
- Industry-leading capacity of more than 5 million pages per day, so documents are available for review in days, not weeks or months.
- More than 200 electronic file types can be processed from a variety of storage media.
Online Review
- Display of disparate file types in a uniform PDF format. No need for multiple software packages to review different kinds of documents.
- Key capabilities include: annotations; redaction; customizable document folders; automated Bates numbering and document branding.
- Sophisticated search functionality enables logical review of discovery documents:
- within the context of an email conversation—with email messages and attachments searchable and displayed in the "parent-child" context; or
- sorted by meta data characteristics such as original author, address field (including to, from, cc and bcc), date created, or document custodian;
- numerous other ways of searching and sorting the complete set of documents in the manner most useful to your case.
- An intuitive interface with "point and click" functionality that enables even the least technical lawyer to become an electronic discovery pro with less than an hour of training.
- Multi-party or multi-site collaboration with access to one comprehensive Web-based repository.
- No hardware or software to purchase—any authorized user can review discovery documents with just a PC and an Internet connection.
- State-of-the-art security, including 128-bit SSL encryption with digital certificates, redundant managed firewalls, and advanced intrusion detection systems.
Document Production and Reporting
- Production of responsive documents according to your specifications—in electronic or paper format:
- PDF files copied to disk;
- PDF files transmitted via an FTP site;
- PDF files or TIFF images exported for use with desktop litigation support systems;
- printed copies of electronic documents.
- Privilege log reports or user-defined custom reporting to suit the needs of your case.
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Applied Discovery provides a comprehensive document review approach that is typically 80-90 percent cheaper than alternative methods of processing electronic data for review (including manual paper review processes and traditional “scanning and coding” solutions). When you see how easy it is, you’ll wonder why you waited so long to get started.
Ready to join the other lawyers who’ve mastered electronic discovery with our help? Here's how to Discover A Better Way®...
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