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Electronic Evidence Discovery
with ICE and Summation

The New Litigation Battlefield - Electronic Evidence Discovery

A. The Importance of Electronic Documents Explained

  • Common Types of Electronic Documents
    • Unstructured Information (User-File System) = eDocs
    • Structured Information in a Common System = eMail & Attachments
    • Structured Information in a Proprietary System = Databases
B. Accessible vs. Inaccessible Data - Zubulake v. USB Warburg
  • The collision of disaster recovery with litigation discovery.
C. ERM & ILM
  • The collision of content management with compliance and litigation response.

D. Preservation

E. Paring Down to Responsive, Relevant & Probative Content

 

Practical handling of Electronic Document Discovery

A. Envelop the information regardless of source media type.

B. Acquisition

  • Client Harvested
  • Vendor Harvested
    • Active Data
    • Forensically Acquired or Reconstructed Data
C. Format Conversion
  • Acquisition Formats
  • Review Formats
  • Production Formats
  • 1. Numbering Schemes
  • 2. Redaction
  • D. Authentication Issues

 

Practical Handling of EDD Using Z-Print & LAW ICE Electronic Discovery Tools

A. Z-Print & LAW

  • Z-Print- first to market
  • 3-4 times faster conversion times
  • Most widely used processing engine/platform
  • DII (eDII) file creation
  • File Inventory
  • Presave mail stores (MS Outlook, Lotus Notes)
  • Extract content from 200+ file types without native application installed
  • Seamless imaging EED platform
  • NO CLICK FEES!
B. Upcoming Features
  • Create jobs from tagged documents in Summation
  • Share one Z-Print license across all clients
  • Easily add Z-Print licenses for additional processing power
  • Automatically update image links
  • Flag trouble files
  • Send tagged jobs to Z-Print for blowbacks
  • Extract and load meta data and content from 200+ file types

 

Z-Print - Showing 3 different workflow processes available to LAW firms

A. Service bureaus capturing native file information and providing data to LAW firms

  • Service bureaus capture native file metadata, content and/or images
  • Firms flag documents
  • Firms provide document list to service bureaus
  • Service bureaus print or convert to tiff and provide images to LAW firm
B. Firms use Z-Print internally to capture native files and/or tiff and load into Summation
  • LAW firms extract content and meta data from source files
  • Firms flag documents
  • Firms convert selected files to images or print
  • Firms upload images to Summation
C. Firms use Z-Print to provide high speed blow backs or direct conversion
  • Create file inventory list
  • Select files for blowbacks
  • Process selected files to paper or tiff

 

Practical Handling of EDD Using Summation

A. Loading Data With The DII File

  • EDD Extensions to the DII File (eDII)
  • The Super Compound Document - PST & NSF Files
  • Using Working Copies

B. Connecting to Data with the UDL

C. EDD Review In Summation

D. Searching & Analysis in Concert with Other Case Information

E. Production Tools

F. Production Set Delivery Options

  • The Production Briefcase
  • Exposure via WebBlaze
  • Export to CaseVault
  • The Browser Briefcase
  • The Reference File

Electronic Production Using StormX

    • Connecting Storm to Summation
    • Creating the Storm Dataset
    • StormX Delivery Options
G. Publish subsets to portable (Storm) reviewer tool to allow end users to make notes and sync changes
  • Isolate records in Summation which need to be produced
  • Extract documents, images, OCR and coded data in Storm database
  • Reviewer can search, tag and make notes
  • Reviewer creates sync file and emails to database administrator
  • Database administrator imports notes and flags
F. Publish to other applications
  • Isolate records in Summation which need to be produced
  • Extract documents, images, OCR and coded data in Storm database
  • Select from several popular load files
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