The document discusses e.law, a company that provides e-discovery services to assist with litigation and investigations involving large volumes of electronic documents. e.law has experience ensuring electronic documents are properly preserved, collected, and produced according to court rules. Their services include processing, reviewing, analyzing, and producing documents using technology to increase efficiency and ensure an intact evidentiary chain of custody.

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e.discovery
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The purpose of e.discovery is to ensure, in the Many of our competitors simply process files, regard-
interest of justice, that information relevant to a less of the output. We take the time to understand
lawsuit or investigation is not lost or overlooked your matter and work with you to ensure you have a
simply because it is in electronic format. e.discovery result that benefits you and your client.
tools, such as forensics and document review All of our processes are compliant with relevant court
platforms, enable us to do this systematically. practice notes, in particular, the recent Practice Note
e.law can assist you in dealing with many of the CM6 – Electronic Technology in litigation.
issues that need to be addressed when faced e.law’s methodologies are based on ensuring that the
with having to discover what can be hundreds of ‘Electronic Discovery Reference Model’ is followed
thousands or even millions of electronic documents. strictly and thereby ensuring that the evidentiary
Importantly, if electronic documents are to be chain of custody is kept intact. All of our processes
exchanged during discovery, e.law assists by are audited and documented.
applying the requirements of existing court practice
notes and whether they are sufficient to deal with At e.law we use ‘Near Duplication Detection
electronically sourced documents. Technology’ (NDD) to detect files with the same
content but which are in different formats, for
Why utilise technology in a discovery or litigation
example, MS Word and PDF versions of the same
matter? The answer lies in the time savings that
document. Also files with the same content but
can be realised if large volumes of documents are
which have different formatting can be identified
to be sorted, catalogued, indexed, analysed and
using NDD.
ultimately presented to the hearing.
Near de-duplication creates order from chaos by
We cover the following areas of e.discovery: grouping documents with similar content together
processing, review, analysis, production and and highlighting this to the user. This means faster
consulting. We have vast experience in working with review and thereby greater time and cost savings.
legal teams during discovery and work with you to
provide solutions.
Electronic Discovery Reference Model - Processing
Preservation
Information
Identification Review Production Presentation
Management
Collection
Analysis
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