by admin-jon | Jan 5, 2011 | Blog, Definition, Electronic Discovery, Electronic Discovery Collection, ESI Software
Saving clients money on electronic discovery processing is one of the challenges facing attorneys, service bureaus and their clients. Due to the amount of data collected when imaging custodian hard drives the resulting processing and labor costs can be significant and...
by admin-jon | Dec 10, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Computer Investigations, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Software, Preservation, Tips & Tricks
A hash value results from a calculation (hash algorithm) that can be performed on a string of text, electronic file, or entire hard drive contents. The result is also called a checksum, hash code, or hashes. Hash values are used to identify and filter duplicate files...
by admin-jon | Dec 7, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Software, Preservation
As our electronically stored information (ESI) data universe continues to grow, we are hearing about increasing storage capacities. The size of a project in terabytes (TB – 1024 Gigabytes) comes up frequently and is often the amount of data that has to be...
by admin-jon | Dec 6, 2010 | Blog, Definition, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Preservation
Email Collection refers to the identification and isolation of electronic mail (email) messages that pertain to a specific legal matter in civil litigation cases. What gets collected What is actually being collected during email collections can be one of two things:...
by admin-jon | Dec 1, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Preservation, Software
ESI (Electronically Stored Information) is the general term for all of the data stored on the hard drives, camera cards, cell phones, GPS devices, digital video recorders, digital answering systems, thumb drives, RAID arrays and any other form of electronic media...
by admin-jon | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog, Collection, Definition, Electronic Discovery, ESI Collection, ESI Software, Preservation
Active File Collection refers to the collection of files that are active (not deleted) and pertain to a legal matter or legal hold. In most civil litigation cases, extensive forensic investigations that look at deleted files are unnecessary or too expensive. Thus,...