Electronic Discovery – ESI
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Electronic Discovery – ESI

Like many other “seasoned” litigation support professionals, I remember when businesses did not use email. By the time, email started showing up “at the office”, I was already working with litigators. So, I was helping with litigation discovery that was primarily in paper form and maybe a small portion of electronic files like WordPerfect documents….

Electronic Discovery – Password Protected Files
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Electronic Discovery – Password Protected Files

In a previous article on the topic of electronic discovery, I began the conversation about a term we use called “processing”. Later, I wrote a few articles about some issues that come up during the processing of electronic discovery. One was exceptions and the other was embedded objects. Another issue that we have to deal with,…

Electronic Discovery – Exceptions
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Electronic Discovery – Exceptions

In a previous article, I began a discussion about processing electronic discovery. Another step of the process is dealing with the exceptions. One result of attempting to process all of the electronic files is a list of files that were unable to be processed. We refer to these files as exceptions. The service provider usually incorporates a…

Electronic Discovery – Embedded Objects
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Electronic Discovery – Embedded Objects

Another aspect of “processing” electronic discovery is our love/hate relationship with “embedded objects”. Okay, it really is more of a hate relationship. This is another example of technology getting in the way of practicing law. Here is the reality: The lawyer collects their client’s electronic documents so they can review them, before producing a subset…

Electronic Discovery – Deduplication
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Electronic Discovery – Deduplication

In a previous article on the topic of electronic discovery, I began the conversation about a term we use called “processing”. Now we will discuss one of the stages within the workflow of processing electronic discovery referred to as “deduplication”. Remember, the goal of processing is to get the electronic documents we collected into a format that we can easily…

Electronic Discovery – Processing
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Electronic Discovery – Processing

In previous electronic discovery articles, I discussed the Subpoena/CID, the Identification of Custodians, Collection, Chain of Custody and a Forensic Image. This article is the first of several where I will discuss topics related to the processing of electronic discovery. The term “processing” encompasses many steps which can make it one of the most difficult topics to…

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Electronic Discovery – Outlook Data Files

In terms of electronic discovery data, most of the e-mail we deal with comes from Microsoft Outlook. The server version of Outlook is called Microsoft Exchange. The client version is called Microsoft Outlook. Since most businesses are using Outlook in their course of business, we end up collecting Outlook data files most of the time…

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Electronic Discovery – E-mail, E-Docs, Loose Docs and Non-E-mail

When working with electronic discovery, there are a few terms that may seem very similar in name that we use in Litigation Support to describe electronic documents. They may also appear to overlap with each other because they actually do overlap in some ways. As I’ve mentioned before, in order to keep conversations about the data…

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