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Case Assessment
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 Recent
survey's by leading industry analysts indicate that 70% of the cost of
eDiscovery is consumed in the document review process. Therefore, it
is important to reduce the amount of data that needs to be reviewed through
a new process called Early Case Assessment (ECA).
ECA technology will enable you to search, filter and analyze your
Electronically Stored Information (ESI), remove duplicates and cull
the data down to the ESI that is actually relevant to the requirements
of your case. At this stage in the evolution of eDiscovery, ESG
believes that it is the most important step in the eDiscovery process
to reduce costs and increase your rate of success.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have experience
with most of today's leading Early Case Assessment tools and
technology and can provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to
which ECA solutions will best fit your needs.
Once we agreed upon the best solution to meet your needs, we have eDSG consortium
partners worldwide to support the ECA Platform of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
 
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FirstCull
is an easy to use Desktop / Laptop Early Case Assessment (ECA) and ESI
analysis tool designed to analyze unstructured information.
The solution is a simple, easy to use application that runs on any
computer and automatically performs in-depth examinations of millions
of files, directories and their contents.
Point FirstCull to the files you want to analyze; the program
automatically scans and assesses that data (from hard drives, entire
computers, servers, removable media, whole networks, etc.) and then
generates a series of easy to read reports that categorically detail
the key attributes about that information.
Use FirstCull in all stages of eDiscovery, Early Case Assessment,
culling, compliance, litigation readiness, forensics, records
retention, email assessment and a whole lot more. – Start
Smart by using FirstCull for Early Case Assessment.
Click Here for
more information.
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Equivio addresses the challenge of redundant data. Redundant data
hampers document-intensive business process, such as litigation,
internal investigations, regulatory compliance and intelligence
analysis. To address this challenge, we offer software products for
grouping near-duplicate files, building email threads and identifying
unique data.
By grouping similar documents,
Equivio users gain a decisive competitive advantage -- Equivio cuts
through the redundant data, enabling users to focus directly on the
unique information they need to win.
eDSG is a certified Equivio reseller and has the technical resources to
integrate and support the Equivio technology within your current
document management platform.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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The OrcaTec Information Discovery Toolkit is an easily deployed
software appliance that provides an integrated collection of
information analysis and management services. Current modules
include:
- Near Duplicate Clustering
- Concept Search (includes
Boolean)
- Language Identification
- Interesting Phrase Finder
- Email Threading
These modules are distributed as an rPath-based
software appliance, making them very easy to install and to maintain.
A software appliance is an application that is distributed with its
own operating system and all systems needed to run and maintain it. It
runs on commodity servers (x86 based systems with up to 64 GB of
memory). The appliance includes its database and data management
tools. It exposes its functionality through a RESTful XML or JSON API.
Like hardware appliances, it requires virtually no care or maintenance
from database administrators or operations personnel. The appliance
comes with an automatic installation script, with which it installs
itself on a bare commodity server. Installation and all maintenance is
done through an easy-to-use web interface. Administrators should never
have to access the component parts. Software appliances are known for
their easy upgradability, easy integration and easy maintenance.
Most data centers already include a
number of hardware and software appliances, such as routers,
firewalls, and VPNs.
All of the OrcaTec Information
Discovery Toolkit components are based on language modeling. A
language model captures the patterns in language use and makes use of
those patterns to detect, classify, and cluster information. The
OrcaTec modeling approach is derived in part from years of basic
research in information retrieval and cognitive science, in particular
on investigations of dolphin biosonar.
The modules are priced on a
per-server basis. We impose no limits on the amount of data that may
be processed on a single system. Version 2 supports a data ingest rate
of up to 2 million documents per day.
eDSG is a certified OrcaTec reseller and has the technical resources to
integrate and support the OrcaTec technology within your
current document management platform.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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earlyCASE
® is an application which runs on your local PC and analyzes the ESI
that your computer can access without the data ever leaving your
computer or network. earlyCASE ® allows you to see and understand
(early case assessment) all of your data before it is processed for
discovery. It supports multiple languages, extracts emails,
attachments, metadata, generates hash values, detects duplicates and
creates a local inventory database of documents and emails. earlyCASE
® allows users to make informed discovery decisions and easily cut
down the size of data sets through filter and culling before going
into the discovery process and review.
eDSG is a certified earlyCASE reseller
and has the technical resources to install and support the
earlyCASE technology within your organization.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Document
Review Platforms
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 Recent
survey's by leading industry analysts indicate that 70% of the cost of
eDiscovery is consumed in the review process. Therefore, it
is important for you and your organization to choose the right
partners and the right technologies to suite your specific
requirements.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have years of
experience with most of today's leading Document Review Tools and can
provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to which technology
will best fit your needs.
Once we agreed upon the best solution to meet your needs, we have eDSG
consortium
partners worldwide to support the Document Review Platform of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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EDD
Processing
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 The
processing of electronic data, commonly referred to
as EED (Electronic Evidence Discovery)
or ESI (Electronically Stored Information),
has historically been referred to as EDD (Electronic Data
Discovery).
EDD involves taking native ESI such as emails and
Microsoft office documents, removing all of the embedded files and
extracting the meta data into a format that can be loaded into a
Document Review tool for lawyers and/or paralegals to review.
With today's technology, this may seem like a fairly easy task.
However, with over 500 file types, multiple languages and layers of
embedded files, EDD processing not done properly can prove to be the
weak link in your eDiscovery process.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have experience
with most of today's EDD processing tools and
technology and can provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to
which solutions will best fit your needs.
Once we agreed upon the best solution to meet your needs, we have eDSG consortium
partners worldwide to support the EDD Platform of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Chain
of Custody and File Transfer Security Solutions
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 Chain
of Custody has been a foundational concept and practice of the
criminal and legal community for many years. However, with the
advent of the Internet and the accelerating volume of Electronically
Stored Information (ESI), the basic security of transferring files and
the associated Chain of Custody requirements have become significant
issues for corporations worldwide.
The eDiscovery experts at eDiscovery Solutions Group have experience
with data security and Chain of Custody technology tools and
best practices and can provide you with an unbiased opinion in regards to
which ECA solutions will best fit your needs.
Once we have chosen the best solution, we have eDSG consultants consortium
partners worldwide to support the solution of your choice.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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TruSeal™ is a simple, convenient and cost effective way to safeguard
the evidential strength and integrity of your company’s digital
data.
A unique digital fingerprint and time
stamp can be seamlessly applied to any digital data residing on any
file system. This may include application documents, imagery, video
and audio files to verify authenticity, detect tampering and maintain
compliance at any time, anywhere, by anyone.
Whether web-based, standalone or
seamlessly integrated into your existing business processes, TruSeal™
provides an efficient, flexible and convenient information integrity
solution.
eDSG
is a certified TruSeal reseller
and has the technical resources to integrate and support the TruSeal technology within your current document management
platform.
Contact us today with your project requirements.
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Become
a Partner
eDiscovery Solutions Group
is always on the look out for new partners with the skills and
expertise to support individual components of the eDiscovery
lifecycle and an advanced sense of business integrity to join the
consortium. However, please note that we are developing a
partner submission page and plan to have it done within the next
couple of weeks.
In the mean time, please submit your inquires to become a member of
the eDiscovery Solutions Group via email at partners@ediscoverysolutionsgroup.com.
Please provide you contact information, an overview of the
eDiscovery services, consulting and technology that you offer along
with the geographic region your organization can support.
For
immediate assistance please call 866-611-7522
Partner
Certifications
eDiscovery
Solutions Group partners are among the best consultants, service
providers and technology providers in the eDiscovery market.
Collectively, the consortium has attained the following industry
certifications:
Industry
Updates
Through
the members of the eDiscovery Solutions Group Consortium, we have
excellent and up-to-date data about the current state of the
eDiscovery Industry. Please feel fee to utilize our website as
a source of information.
Please contact us at 866-611-7522 with any articles, Blog postings
and/or whitepapers that you would like us to publish.
 Download
Fulbright’s
Sixth Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report
Initially launched by Fulbright in 2004, their annual survey has
become the largest canvas of corporate counsel on litigation issues
and trends in the world.
For additional information on the Fulbright report or to
schedule a conference call with one of eDiscovery Solutions Group
Consultants to discuss how your organization compares to the
international trends in the eDiscovery market, please contact
eDiscovery Solutions Group at 866-611-7522.
eDiscovery
Studies and Research
 Radu
Stancut and Professor Gerard Becker from the Department of
Management and Information Technology, the School of Continuing and
Professional Studies, New York University asked me to invite
professionals from the eDiscovery industry to participate in an
online research study of the effects the changes to the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have had on the relationship between
corporate clients and their respective outside counsel. Click
Here to participate in the study.
eDiscovery
Whitepapers and Articles
Concept Search in
eDiscovery
by Dr. Herb Roitblat PhD at Oractec
Concept search has been receiving increasing attention from legal professionals
and the courts. Despite many years of use, a lot of misunderstanding still seems
to be prevalent about what concept search is and what it does. There is a lot of
unnecessary fear, uncertainty, and doubt about concept search, which this paper
seeks to dispel.
Click here
to Download the paper
Hash
Functions in eDiscovery
by Dr. Herb Roitblat PhD at Oractec
This paper addresses questions regarding using hash functions in electronic
discovery.
Recent developments in research on hashing functions, particularly the MD5 hash
function, have led some people in eDiscovery to wonder about their continued
use. These concerns are addressed in this paper.
Click here
to Download the paper
Evidence
Based Search Evaluations
by Dr. Herb Roitblat PhD at Oractec
In this paper, we consider the evaluation of search efficacy from a practical
perspective. The “proof” of the adequacy of a search, indeed of an entire
review process, is in the documents that were retrieved. The main expertise that
is required to evaluate search is to ensure that this evaluation is done fairly,
accurately, and inexpensively.
Click here
to Download the paper
Keyword
vs. Concept Search
by Charles Skamser at eDSG
Having grown up in the enterprise class solutions world with relational
databases, I am very comfortable with SQL query based searching. And, over the
past several years, with my focus on the litigation market and litigation
technology, I have now become very familiar with keyword searching against
scanned and OCR'd document files. However, with with my passion for
"leading edge" technology and/or solutions that can meet the demands
of a market going through a paradigm shift, I have not been overly excited or
impressed with the state of search technology in eDiscovery.
However, that has all changed with the emergence of conceptual search
technology. As such, I have spent a tremendous amount of time researching
conceptual search and how it compares from both a technology standpoint and from
as business value standpoint. And, although I have come to the early conclusion
that there is room and a need for all three, I have also determined that there
is still a tremendous amount of confusion in regards to concept search vs.
keyword search technology and the best use of both.
Click here
to view the entire article
Early
Case Assessment (ECA)
by Charles Skamser at eDSG
Just before the Christmas holidays in 2007 I was teaching a CLE on the
“Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)”. There had to have
been 150 litigators, litigation service providers and consultants in the room
listening to me preach about this unchartered new world called eDiscovery. My
initial morning session was an overview of the current status of paper based
litigation processing, how the accelerating increase in the volume of
Electronically Stored Information (ESI) was steaming down the eDiscovery tracks
like an out of control locomotive, how the changes to the FRCP would effect us
all and what they all needed to know that day to get ready. One of topics that I
touched on was the need to become more familiar with key word search methodology
and the new technologies that would enable the legal industry to better manage
the process of finding relevant data and assessing cases early on in the
eDiscovery lifecycle. The reason that I am recalling this CLE seminar was
because I will always remember the comments from an older litigator that packed
up his belongings during the first break, walked up to the front and announced
that, “all of this fancy new technology was never going to replace good old
fashion legal hard work, understanding the relevant facts and key information
for case wasn’t as complicated as I was making it sound and therefore he
wasn’t going to stick around for the rest of my session.”
Well, the remainder of 149 attendees stayed and I hope that they all walked away
with a better understanding of the importance of understanding key word search
methodology and the new technologies that would enable the legal industry to
better manage the process of finding relevant data and assessing cases early on
in the eDiscovery lifecycle. Over the subsequent 18 months, key word became a
big issue in the eDiscovery lifecycle and spawned a whole new technology arena
called Early Case Assessment (ECA) that focused on reducing the amount of
“relevant” data that had to ultimately be reviewed by a lawyer. And, having
just completed another CLE this past week on ECA, I think that “most”
eDiscovery professionals understand the keyword search methodology and the new
technologies that enable them to better manage the process of finding relevant
data and assessing cases early on in the eDiscovery lifecycle.
However, just when we thought we had it had it all figured out, a study from the
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) indicated that the keyword method tends to miss
most of the relevant documents, while yielding mainly irrelevant documents. As a
result, only a fraction of the relevant documents make it to the detailed review
stage, while most of the documents that are submitted to review are in fact not
relevant.
Moreover, the study also found that the keyword approach is typically binary,
meaning that documents are either included or not. There is no graduated scale
of relevance. This rigid approach does not allow for relative ranking of
documents, making it extremely difficult to manage and prioritize document
review.
However, as with any market that is going through a paradigm shift looking for
its center and trying to normalize on some standards, the litigation technology
vendors have been all over the keyword search issue and are starting to release
their new solutions into production. One of the very first players in the
industry to address the issue of document relevance is Equivio, a leading
provider of near de-duping and email thread management technology. They have
just launched Equivio>Relevance™, an expert-guided system that enhances the
eDiscovery process through automated document prioritization.
Getting back to the comments of my lawyer friend that walked out of my CLE back
in 2007, fancy new technology may never replace good old legal hard work.
However, in today’s new world of Terabytes of potential evidence in even some
of the small matters, we need all the technical help that we can get. And, it
appears that Equivio is stepping up and offering us all at least a fighting
chance to find the documents that we need successfully mange our cases.
Click here
to view the entire article
Online
Presentations eDiscovery
Solutions Group has Online Presentations that cover a variety of
topics. Please click on the link for the presentation that you would
like to play. Please note that you may need Adobe Flash to
view these presentations:
ESG
Partnership: Generating Incremental Review
Overview
of eDiscovery Solutions Group, its consortium business model and how
ESG partners and independent sales consultants can make incremental
revenue from their current client base.
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