Years of experience in the legal industry, a proven track record with Fortune 5000 legal departments, and top US Law Firms provide Paragon working knowledge of electronic processing best practices enabling us to deploy proven evidence processing procedures, and data culling strategies improving the level of legal services within a law firm or corporation.
Paragon has worked with corporations and law firms to:
- Design and implement the corporate and or law firm electronic data discovery plan
- Execute processing of electronic evidence and data analysis through experienced personnel
- Ensure access to the resources required for the integration of electronic source data into the overall discovery plan with internal departments and external counsel via superior project management
Paragon has extensive experience in assessing and implementing recommended solutions for complete client litigation portfolios and matter-specific needs for corporate legal departments and law firms. The value to our clients lies in our ability to provide both strategic advice and resources to manage discovery challenges.
Simplified components of electronic data discovery:
- Identify, Preserve, Collect – It is important to exercise the proper forensic methodologies for collecting and preserving data to avoid evidence spoliation. We will extract data from servers, hard drives, backup tapes and/or other media, issue an inventory report, if needed, store your data in our secure repository, and begin the electronic file processing phase.
- Electronic File Processing - Large volumes of data are taken from storage media, de-duplicated, and filtered with complete text and metadata preserved and for search accuracy.
- De-Duplication (also called De-Duping) – Process involves comparing records based on their characteristics and removing duplicate records from the data set.
- Culling (Filtering) – The electronic filtering of e-mails and files for privilege or by keyword, file type or name. Culling removes files that don’t fit the search criteria reduces the volume of data that requires further investigation.
- Review, Annotate, Number and Export - This is the last component of the electronic discovery process.
Hard Document Discovery
Paragon is seasoned when engaging in the image capture of paper for litigation. Our hard document model follows the electronic discovery model identify, collect, scan, review, number and export. Paragon also assist firms with OCR, coding, blowbacks, legal copying and bates numbering. Vast experience in hard document management parlays well when a litigious matter involves electronic information. The ability to handle both electronic and hard copy promotes one point of contact and consistency.
Project managers eliminate the burden of logistics typically handled by the corporation or law firm. Allowing internal personnel to focus on core responsibilities saves valuable time and money.