Information Technology and digitization is changing and
simplifying the way lawyers work. One of the specialized services offered by
legal support service providers is E-Discovery. With the huge volumes of information
and documents being stored electronically, management and retrieval of
information has also become crucial. E-Discovery services efficiently
retrieve and consolidate the relevant data and legal documents to be used as
evidence by attorneys.
Legal proceedings require information which needs to be extracted
from tons of data and courts demand supporting documents, these tasks are very
crucial, time consuming and require complete concentration. LPO’s are
transforming the way solicitors, legal firms and corporate legal departments
are managing their legal data and documents by providing highly affordable
services like categorizing, gathering, filtering, handling, and producing the
litigation data. E-Discovery specialists are helping litigants manage, analyze,
draft and produce the necessary requests, disclosers, interrogations and depositions.
They don’t just help manage the
documents received but also the documents produced during the legal discovery
process.
E-Discovery
services can be
categorized further in 3 steps –
1. Data processing:
E-Discovery services are required to process online data which is usually
available in the form of text, website pages, blogs, emails, audio files and
video files etc. at real time speed. It also includes scanning the hard copies
of documents.
2. Data collection, preservation and
identification: It includes collecting information using
online sources about the people with whom you will engage with during the
litigation process or in the court. This data is collected using E-Discovery
services. The next step is the preservation of the collected data
and then comes sorting the useful information from the collected data, which is
known as data identification.
3. Data analysis and filtering: Lastly,
the preserved and sorted data is analyzed and filtered to reach the appropriate
results/solutions.
Benefits
of availing E-Discovery services from Legal
Process Outsourcing Companies –
· E-Discovery
services help in analyzing large volumes of electronic data for effective and quick
case assessment. LPO’s also provide comprehensive data metrics which allows
accurate approximation of time lines and budgets.
· Availing these solutions helps law firms
develop suitable case strategies.
·
E-Discovery
solutions can help law firms gain useful insights into the case facts and
identify potential documents and information.
· Electronic
discovery software does not require the lawyers to manually review huge volumes
of documents. These solutions help present the results faster using web-based
applications, thereby further reducing time and overall costs.
