What is e.discovery
e.discovery, legal discovery or electronic discovery refers to the legal discovery of electronically stored information in the context of litigation or some sort of government investigation. The purpose of e.discovery is to ensure in the interest of justice, that information relevant to a lawsuit or investigation is not lost or overlooked simply because it is in electronic format. e.discovery tools, such as forensics and document review platforms enable us to do this systematically.
Documents can be obtained in two distinct formats: hard copy and/or electronic. Electronic documents may, in fact, be hard copy documents that have been digitalised (i.e imaged and saved to formats such as PDF and TIFF ) as opposed to having been sourced in electronic format.
e.law can assist you in dealing with many of the issues that need to be addressed when faced with having to discover what can be hundreds of thousands or even millions of electronic documents, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Importantly, if electronic documents are to be exchanged during legal discovery, e.law assists by applying the legal requirements of existing court practice notes and whether they are sufficient to deal with electronically sourced documents.
e.law also has offices in Asia and can assist in your litigation and legal discovery needs within the Asia region.