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Electronic Discovery Solutions

After the changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect on December 1, 2006, the entire litigation landscape changed in its wake. Courts are still trying to decide how to apply the new standards, and organizations are weighing the costs of taking more proactive steps to organize data versus the potential legal costs of being caught unprepared when litigation or regulatory requests emerge.

eMag Solutions provides state of the art technology and experienced technical staff who specialize in taking large data populations and culling down the data to only the necessary subset for litigation, regulatory, or compliance matters. eMag aims to reduce the volume of information overload at the earliest possible stages of investigation, allowing our wide range of customers to spend their valuable time analyzing the resulting data rather than waiting for it to be delivered.

E-Discovery Processing

eMag truly bridges the gap between IT and Legal departments, with its ability to offer expertise in both reactive situations (stemming from pending litigation or government requests), and also proactive data processing solutions that address legacy data from backup tapes in multiple formats, along with active data from e-mail, network shares, and near line storage.

E-Discovery Services Include:

Electronic Discovery Preparedness Consulting
Electronic Discovery and Data Restoration
Email Extraction, Conversion and Archiving
De-Duplication, File Filtering, and Keyword Searching
Near-Deduplication
Custodial targeting (tape level/restoring EDB/keyword based)
Native File Delivery
Full TIFF processing
Load file creation for native reviews, for hosting
Black and white and Color TIFFing
Multiple platforms for load files (examples include: Ringtail, Concordance, Summation, iConect, Catalyst, generic (text))
Exception reporting for EDD processing

Data Restoration Process

Our Value

We are committed to enhancing the value we provide to our clients by:

Helping our customers dramatically reduce costs, improve accuracy and accelerate turnaround times.
Reducing large pools of data to the smallest responsive subset, de-duplicated and filtered to return only a single instance of each individual document or file.
Maintaining the highest quality standards in our well-known discovery products and services and adding new products that take advantage of technology innovations.
Developing innovative software solutions that enable our customers to cost- effectively store, manage, connect, convert, migrate and recover large amounts of data.
Extending our Data Management services and systems to provide answers and tools to clients seeking to optimize the integrity and availability of their data.

Dedicated Client Resources For Every Job Include:

Media Management Team – Responsible for handling all media, maintaining chain of custody, data management, and shipping.

Data Restoration Team – Restores data from all media formats outside of those collected forensically.

Post-Production Team – Responsible for overseeing data culling and filtering processes, including data de-duplication, keyword searching, date and file type filtering.

Conversion Team – Performs TIFF and PDF conversion services and creates load files for legal review tools.

Project Management – Dedicated job managers who communicate the status of ongoing jobs and bridge the gap between IT and Legal needs of clients.

Quality Assurance Team – Responsible for ensuring that quality is implemented throughout the entire eMag organization. At the job level, this team performs finished job audits to ensure that eMag’s work product matches the customer’s requirements for any given job. All services performed in data services/production are reviewed by the Quality Control team before being released to the client. Quality will not sign off on any job or report being sent to a client until the job passes a finished job audit.