Discovery Services
The diversity and dispersion of digital information continues to grow as the legal and regulatory environments become more challenging. From pre-litigation information management to post-matter data disposition, EY teams offer managed services across the entire range of the eDiscovery life cycle.
What EY can do for you
Organizations are seeking end-to-end eDiscovery solutions to help them manage legal and compliance risks and also to reduce cost. From pre-litigation information management to post-matter data disposition, EY teams’ qualifications, experience and scale enable us to offer services across the broad range of the eDiscovery life cycle.
eDiscovery Life Cycle:
- Identification and collection:
- Identification of actors involved and the digital material in their possession (e.g. PCs, mail archive, network shares, smartphones, tablets).
- Collect the identified digital material, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
- Processing:
- Process acquired data, to isolate personal material, to exclude duplicates, to recover deleted material.
- Analysis and Review:
- Define keywords to be applied to the document basis.
- Manual review of identified documents.
- Optimization of keywords where necessary to reduce the number of false positives.
- Reporting:
- Preparation of appropriate reports and/or displays.
- If required by the specific activity, arrange for relevant material to be exported to the requesting authority, in accordance with specific criteria and shared procedures.
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