The Electronic Discovery Reference Model provides a common framework for the electronic discovery process and is divided into six areas: information management, identification, preservation/collection, processing/review/analysis, production and presentation. Let’s have a look at how EnCase eDiscovery supports organization’s e-discovery needs relevant to each stage of the model. Information Management While the overall information management scope encompasses many aspects, Encase software can help proactively manage your data to remove irrelevant, outdated, useless data that you don’t need for your business. Initiating this process goes a long way towards reducing your overall e-discovery burden before litigation strikes. EnCase enables you to search laptops, desktops, and servers for such data to get rid of it or move it to centralized storage.
Identification With EnCase eDiscovery pre-collection analytics, customers gain solid understanding and insight to conduct identification on the case’s potential time, cost, and merits as well as potential data sources and custodians. With this unique capability, customers can quickly identify custodians that will need to receive a legal hold notice and can identify relevant data sources, get metrics on total data versus potentially relevant data, and understand how much data could be eliminated.
Preservation and Collection EnCase eDiscovery quickly and easily collects and preserves content across the network – from live email servers, desktops, laptops, file servers, and more – without any disruption to employee day-to-day operations. By preserving all electronic data and metadata critical to the case, EnCase helps ensure ESI is genuine, creates timelines to understand ‘who knew what when’, and deploys a defensible process that reduces legal risk and helps maintain chain of custody. And, its patented optimized distributed search technology provides faster collection than indexing, archiving, or any other collection solution.
Processing EnCase eDiscovery provides the most efficient and cost effective processing capabilities that greatly reduce the data set collected by eliminating non-responsive ESI based on advanced search techniques. The end result delivers targeted and responsive results and significant downstream cost savings.
Review and Analysis EnCase eDiscovery provides legal teams with first-pass review that is made possible through a secure web-based viewer for quick and easy review of ESI content throughout the e-discovery process – providing relevant case information in hand within hours. Plus, the EnCase analysis capabilities set a new market standard with early case assessment that provides analysis – early and often – at any point in the e-discovery process to help legal teams gain a strategic case advantage and determine how to best negotiate during meet-and-confer conferences with opposing counsel.
Production EnCase eDiscovery enables load file creation for sending evidence files to legal teams for production and review in desired formats and platforms; including, EDRM XML, Concordance, Summation, and native file formats. Files can also be easily exported to LexisNexis Concordance and CT Summation output formats.
Presentation EnCase eDiscovery provides the most efficient process and delivers relevant ESI that is the basis for equipping organizations with the data and knowledge required to effectively embark on the presentation stage, which is then completed independently from the EnCase solution.
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