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Handling and processing electronic evidence presents
new and unique challenges that are vastly different
from working with traditional printed documents.
If not properly managed, evidence processing may
miss information that is critical and responsive.
Or worse, privileged documents might be inadvertently
produced to the opposing side.
To effectively process vast amounts and disparate
flavors of electronic evidence, it must first be
aggregated into a central database, inventoried,
uniquely identified, purged of extraneous system
and application files, de-duplicated and cataloged
for searching. Fios utilizes a range of data reduction strategies and helps you balance your desire to control costs with the risk of culling too deep.
The remaining potentially responsive documents and metadata (document attributes) need to be published to a common format that can be viewed using the selected review application. Then data must be aggregated using methodologies that maintain a legally defensible audit trail, avoid contamination, and reveal the many layers of seemingly hidden information (metadata) found in electronic files. This can be a complex process requiring deep technical expertise and experience.
Benefits of Fios Evidence Processing
Fios gives you reliable, technology-enabled evidence processing, developed by a savvy team of experts, that enables legal teams to take full advantage of the entire universe of evidence, including all types of electronic documents and email, while utilizing methods defensible in court and yielding evidence that is quickly and easily reviewable by legal teams.
We collect huge volumes of complex, disparate data, regardless of the source or circumstances, and turn it into actionable information in a way that is fast, economical and reliable, and which can be efficiently searched in a secure, central repository with the Fios PrevailŪ web-based review application.
You receive:
- Data inventory to categorize documents according
to your review strategy
- Data extraction (including unzip and decompression
of files)
- Expansion of email attachments while maintaining
parent/child relationships
- Assignment of unique identification number (Fios
Electronic Numbering System - FENS) to track each
item through to production
- File fingerprinting and signature with MD5 hash
codes
- Elimination of extraneous files and de-duplication
using hash codes
- Filtering documents based on search terms and
other criteria
- Conversion of all of the documents to a common
file type (TIFF or HTML if the review will be in
Prevail) and publishing to the database
- Maintaining access to the native file if that
is the preferred method of review
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