It is well known, and consistently proven, that computer or digital evidence is often the “smoking gun” in many high profile cases. Today, in businesses of all sizes, the bulk of information is being created and stored in digital form on computer systems and devices. It is indisputable that digital evidence, be it documents, databases or the omnipresent email, should always be considered a primary source of evidence.

Electronic Discovery, or e-Discovery, is a complex process of identifying, collecting, processing, searching and analysis of relevant electronically stored information (ESI) in a large array of electronic data having different nature and acquired from various digital sources, that may be used as evidence in a legal proceeding, fraud investigations, regulatory or internal reviews and fact finding exercises.

We offer a full suite of electronic investigation services for finding and analyzing electronic documents within highlighted contexts and in accordance with legal guidelines and rules of evidence. We will help you to understand past events and identify cause of events, wilfulness of actions and knowledge of wrong doing.

Our consultants and technology specialists have the skill and experience needed to successfully conduct every step of e-Discovery process:

Data Collection

Our team is qualified and equipped to:

• Identify relevant individuals and data sources.
• Acquire various digital evidences in a forensically sound manner from mobile devices, computer systems and networks.
• Support evidential integrity and maintain a proper chain of custody.

Processing

We are capable to process large volumes of data in short timeframes. We can extract and index full text and metadata from documents, emails, images and a wide variety of file types and make them searchable for review. At initial stage, our aim is to reduce the volume of analyzed data and hone in on an initial data set for the review phase of a project.

In this stage we perform the following procedures:

• Recovering deleted files and electronic messages;
• Indexing of textual information from all extracted files and e-mails, including their metadata and attachments;
• Running OCR (Optical Character Recognition) procedure for all scanned documents that contain a text;
• Files’ de-duplication and exclusion procedures (e.g. exclusion of system files and immaterial items);
• Culling of files based on date range, file type, file size, custodian, etc.;
• Reducing the number of emails based on email threading analysis;
• Performing keyword and other searches based on the matter of the case.

Review

We can greatly assist you in review of any data or legally held information and records pulling off what’s relevant as long as you supply keywords or a scenario for us to investigate. Our reviewers all have knowledge in a variety of fraud investigation areas, and they are experienced in the near de-duplicate analysis, topic grouping, smart searching, machine translation, etc. Alternatively, we can provide you the simplest platform to review processed data (such as DT-search indexed external drive or excel file containing metadata and links to native files) or we can prepare data (load file) for your own review platform based on required specifications.