Faster Corporate Investigation with New Age e-Discovery Solution
Investigation during a litigation program looks for features that can speed up the discovery phase and create an efficient system to accomplish the objectives. In today’s techno savvy world, most of the documents for review are in the digital form. Thus the legal proceedings also need to depend upon technologically sound systems and recovery tools for management and discovery of digital data. Easy and immediate access to the electronic documents can automatically speed up the litigation process.
The expanding business world while adhering to the demands of globalization is made up of folders and files in digital format- from word documents, PDF files, spreadsheets, emails and image files bringing in a paperless office environment. Electronic discovery or e discovery is a collection of tools and methodologies used to convert digital data into user friendly formats with an ability to process, scrutinize, review and organize them while avoiding redundancy and duplication. These services provide enterprises with the electronic discovery litigation support by processing, digitizing, retrieving and organizing data.
The increasing growth of electronically stored information and frequency of litigation and internal investigations prevalent in today’s business environment, challenge the litigations professionals for faster results with reduced expenses. Electronic data discovery has thus become a trend today for streamlining, analyzing and culling electronically stored data for early case assessments and review in the corporate investigation process.
With traditional e-discovery process laden with delays, business risk, and increased cost, it becomes difficult for both IT and legal teams to collaborate during various stages of the litigation process. The new age electronic discovery litigation support tools help the professionals working on the process to take on a defensive approach to e-discovery that not only reduces business risk but also lowers costs, and improves outcomes.
The new age e-discovery solutions are purpose-built to handle complex and iterative workflows. In an attempt to meet the scalability requirements of corporate investigation, these e-discovery solutions focuses on every stage- from identification, to legal hold, to review of the e-discovery Lifecycle resulting in production of cost-effective outcomes. These solutions facilitate the corporate legal teams with –
· Early understanding of the case facts leading to faster development of case strategy
· Streamlining all digital data across critical data sources of the enterprise
· Reduction of work volume with reduced processing costs
· Transparent and defensible e-discovery process
· Quick and accurate review large volumes of data
Such advantageous features of e-discovery solutions enable the corporate investigation professionals with easy development of case strategies based on intelligent culling of data, accelerated analysis and faster review of the electronic documents.