February 6, 2008
E-Discovery Litigation Readiness
I think I have found the predominant theme this year: E-Discovery. From what people tell me, this was a focus last year at LegalTech as well. I sat in on a E-discovery session hosted by Kroll. It was well attended.
I came in late - they were talking about IM programs. If you are looking at getting IM logs, don't just look at the server logs. Make sure to look at the local machine, which also logs instant messages.
Identifying and preserving voicemail: in the past you had to use stand alone recorder to record voice mails. Now with the unified messaging systems it is easy to have them made into wav files for preserving them. However, not easy to search these files. Tools exist to do it, but they didn't go into any of them.
Talked with one of the LexisNexis reps regarding LAW Prediscovery tools that can help search things like wav files, and he showed me how easy it can be to search for things either by extension, filter by selection, or just a regular search. So there are tools out there that can search for any electronic discovery, you just need to look at the ones that will work for your firm.
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