Electronic Discovery Litigation Support Streamlining Legal Workflow
Technology with its impact on every aspect of business transaction and communication process has led most of the data and information to be present in electronic form. Because of its intangible form, volume of transactions , transience and durability digital data is considered different from paper-based ones. Further unlike the paper documents these are accompanied by a recorded date and time of the document being saved and edited. These meta data play an important part in the electronic discovery process as evidence in case of legal issues.
Electronic discovery or e-discovery refers to the mechanism of extraction of electronically stored information in any format from the storage devices and the corporate networks. E-discovery process involves a wide array of professionals from lawyers to forensic experts and IT managers. The electronic discovery litigation support professionals extract and analyze the evidence collected using digital forensic procedures. These are then converted to a format that can be used in the legal proceedings.
The continuous and unprecedented growth of electronically stored information has challenged organizations with e discovery of information stored using new age resources and like cloud computing and web tools. Such rapid growth has forced organizations and litigation support experts to develop ways and means to extract information stored in the cloud and offshore data centers. Further, with the number of frauds and cyber threats, there is an increase in the number of litigation, giving rise to a paradigm shift towards an e-discovery platform.
The traditional tools used for legal disclosure being time consuming with lack of transparency and defensibility required for litigation, organizations now look forward to e discovery tools. Further, the changing market dynamics, inception of new technology and demands from the corporate world have instigated the need for a cost-effective and timely discovery of electronically saved documents. Litigation support software developed by top e discovery service providers in collaboration with IT experts and legal professionals is an investment worth making by most of the organizations and legal firms.
With numerous benefits, the electronic litigation support software facilitates in decreasing in labor intensive detail management, use of multiple disparate tool besides lowering processing costs. With the help of imaging technology, this software facilitates to maintain backup copies and transcripts in real-time, thus eliminating the use of paper and making organizations more eco-friendly. Such single applications which can be used effortlessly while reducing the complexities of the e-discovery process will provide effective litigation support in the e-discovery Lifecycle.
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