Today attorneys find themselves deluged with new volumes of discoverable information, all electronically created and stored. Beyond paper files pertinent to a case, now e-mail messages, computer files, spreadsheets, word processing documents and all attachments must be considered when preparing for a case. At times multiple hard drives must be retrieved and searched.

The majority of business information is stored as electronic document data. This electronic data is a critical source of evidence in litigation. Due to the volume of electronic information, the courts have recognized how critical electronic discovery is to successfully navigating through a case. From collecting and reviewing data through electronic document production, effective management of your electronic information is critical to any Firm’s success moving forward. Your goal is to win. Our goal is to help you to do just that.

The process of converting electronic documents (application files) and e-mail into a standard graphical file format (PDF or TIFF), for easy viewing or printing to paper, and extracting all of the text for full-text searching. The images and text data can then be imported into any of the standard litigation support software packages or repositories, for use in discovery.

In 2006 amendments to the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, codified the requirement to provide electronic information and records, referred to as electronically stored information (ESI). These changes brought about the term e-Discovery or Electronic Discovery that includes all electronic information. Discovery is the term used for the initial phase of litigation where the parties in a dispute are required to provide each other relevant information and records, along with all other evidence related to the case.

• Word documents
  
• Spreadsheets
  
• Email
  
• Audio and video

The effort to comply to an e-Discovery request is often time-consuming and expensive due to the volume of information and records created and stored in electronic form, typically throughout the enterprise in an unstructured manner on network drives, personal computers and PDAs.

Allzone e-Discovery applications and technology enable organizations to pull information and records from the massive volumes spanning an enterprise, including emails and eliminate exact copies to reduce the effort and cost of reviewing the remaining content. This can also be costly and time consuming so the best practice is to be prepared before you have to act. The costs and management of e-Discovery actions can be lowered and managed more effectively through a sound records management program and the use of Electronic Records Management (ERM) systems.

Allzone legal service helps companies take the cost out of e-discovery or electronic discovery. Allzone provides a practical yet strategic in-house approach with highly scalable early case assessment capabilities. It brings e-discovery agility, insight and intelligence to a higher level. Responding to e-Discovery matters today while building the foundation towards more proactive information governance control becomes more practical with Allzone legal service.

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