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Service Provides Useful Features for E-Discovery
Continuing the trend of informing readers about helpful online services (See October PLLS Online for a description of CourtLink and November PLLS Online for EDOCKET), this month's column describes an electronic discovery service that may be useful in complicated product liability litigation. We are not recommending the service; we merely inform our readers of its existence and its claims.
You can explore another electronic discovery service offered by Lexis/Nexis by visiting www.applieddiscovery.com. Applied Discovery keeps electronic files electronic. That means users can skip the process of moving from electronic to paper and back to electronic. This method may save users time and money.
Applied Discovery's services include:
- Data Gathering. Guidance for internal IT resources or on-site, professional assistance to collect data from clients' computers, including network servers, desktop PCs, laptops, backup tapes, handheld devices, and any other storage medium. It can also help develop cost-effective strategies for identifying, gathering, and preparing only necessary information for review.
- Media Restoration. This includes retrieval of information from backup tapes or legacy systems ' from standard e-mail and word processing programs to arcane systems and uncommon file types. Applied Discovery offers strategies for narrowing the set of potentially responsive documents.
- Data Processing. Users can review a large volume of documents within a short period of time. Electronic documents are processed in industry-standard PDF format, with complete text and meta data preserved and indexed for search accuracy.
- Online Review. The Online Review service is designed specifically for online document review. Disparate file types are displayed in a uniform PDF format, so users do not need to purchase and install multiple software packages to review different kinds of documents. Capabilities include: annotations; redaction; customizable document folders; automated Bates numbering and document branding; and many other features designed to mirror familiar discovery practices.
Search functionality enables logical review of discovery documents:
- Within the context of an e-mail conversation – with e-mail 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; or
- Alternative ways of searching and sorting the complete set of documents in the manner most useful to the specific case at hand.
Other features include:
- A user-friendly interface with “point and click” functionality.
- Multiparty or multisite collaboration with access to one comprehensive Web-based repository.
- Security, including 128-bit SSL encryption with digital certificates, redundant managed firewalls, and advanced intrusion detection systems.
Applied Discovery offers production of responsive documents according to user specifications ' in electronic or paper format. Users have a choice of PDF files copied to disk or transmitted via an FTP site; PDF files or TIFF images exported for use with desktop litigation support systems; printed copies of electronic documents, or standard privilege log reports or user-defined custom reporting to suit the needs of the case.
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