• Electronic Evidence Processing
  • E-Evidence Step-by-Step
  • Electronic Discovery FAQ
• Document Scanning / OCR
• Document Coding
• Web-Based Document Repositories
• Administrative Record Preparation
• Software Sales and Training
• Deposition Summaries
• MCLE Seminars
• White Papers

With our Electronic Evidence Processing services, D-M Information Systems can help attorneys prepare themselves and their clients for the legal consequences associated with conducting business in the Information Age.

According to IDC research:

• In 2002, 97% of all information was created, stored, and/or transmitted electronically.
• 31 billion emails per day were sent in 2002 — 11.215 trillion emails in one year.
• By 2006, totals will rise to 60 billion emails daily, or 21.9 trillion emails yearly.

In 2000, the American Bar Association Litigation Survey found:

• 40% of responding attorneys believed that their clients had significant databases of electronic records.
• 22% did not know one way or another.
• 83% said their clients did not have established protocols for answering discovery requests involving computer data.
• 75% said their clients were not aware that computer data was discoverable until they faced a discovery request.

A company with 100 employees working 250 days per year will generate:

• 625,000 emails monthly
• 7,500,000 emails annually

Many vendors claim to have know-how in processing electronic evidence. D-M has proven expertise. We have more than25 years (and counting) of first-hand experience preparing both paper and digital evidence for the legal community.

We understand the issues from the litigator’s point of view, and we can obtain and process electronic evidence using technology that ensures:

• Proper chain of custody
• Safeguards against spoliation
• Pre-project inventory and analysis
• Complete “unpacking” of all potential evidence
• Processing that includes filter text extraction and metadata extraction
• Routine deduplication to weed out duplicated documents
• Filtering by client-determined search terms
• Removing blank tiffs
• Special handling of corrupt or encrypted files
• Production capabilities to any client specifications

D-M can process any kind of data, emails and files from virtually any type of media including hard drives, backup tapes, CD-ROM, floppy disks, Zip disks and dongles. To read how D-M handles electronic evidence processing step-by-step, click here.

D-M routinely integrates electronic evidence into databases that include records of paper documents. In addition, D-M normally links records to images and files, so users can view either an image of a page or an electronic file in its native application (provided the application is available on the user’s computer).