Understanding the Role of E-discovery in Corporate Litigation

The globalized business world with its technologically enabled environment handles  all the transactions and business communications  in digital format. Access to this information for modification or appending or data  collection  for any analysis is referred to as electronic discovery service. This would include anything from the simple email passwords to more secretive and personal bank details to word documents, PDF files, spreadsheets, emails and image files etc.  

 

Made up of  a collection of tools and methodologies, e-discovery is used to convert digital data into user friendly formats . The increasing growth of digitally  stored information and frequency of  investigations prevalent in business environment, challenges the litigation professionals for faster results in a cost effective manner. Thus demanding the need for enterprises to deploy for e-disclosure methods.   

 

The e discovery services are basically used by litigation support, lawyers and attorneys  to simplify their workflow. The e-discovery process includes data processing of online data, collection, preservation , identification and analysis of data from online footprints that can be used in the litigation process, By  processing, digitizing, retrieving and organizing data while avoiding duplication, these  services  help  enterprises with the e discovery litigation support.

 

Electronic data discovery has thus  become a trend among the technology enabled enterprises  for streamlining, analyzing and culling of data for faster  case assessments and review in the corporate investigation process. However,  the traditional e-discovery process was laden with delays, business risk, and increased cost. This worked out as a difficult proposition for the collaborating the  IT and legal teams to during the litigation process. The new age e discovery solutions  not only reduces business risk but also lowers costs, and improves outcomes.

 

The leading service providers have developed e discovery solutions that can easily handle complex and repetitive work-flows. Further, with a focus on the every stage of the e-discovery lifecycle from the collection,  identification of legal hold to  review, this provides enterprises with a faster and cost-effective results. For the  legal teams involved in the corporate investigations, these solutions provide

 

  • clear  understanding of the facts which helps in better  case strategy
  • helps to quickly and accurately review large  volumes of data
  • facilitates streamlining of critical data from various sources within the enterprise
  • Reduces the volume of work as well as the  processing costs

 

Such transparent and defensible e-discovery process enables  the litigation professionals with  easy development of case strategies leading to accelerated analysis and intelligent corporate investigation.

 

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