PROTEGGA LLC e-Discovery Services

e-Discovery is the collection, review, and production of information stored in electronic format, "ESI" or "Electronically Stored Information", (e.g. emails and their attachments, spreadsheets, presentations, memos, reports and computer-generated information, such as, link files, registry entries, log files, configuration data, and metadata). To add to the technological mystery, e-discovery is also referred to as "ediscovery", "Electronic Discovery", "Digital Discovery", "ED", "EDD", "Electronic Digital Discovery", "Electronic Disclosure", "Electronic Document Discovery", and "Electronic Evidence Discovery".

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26(f), the planning conference, was modified to provide for a discussion of the issues related to electronic discovery, privilege assertion, and preservation. What data is reasonably accessible? What is opposing counsel really asking for and how will that affect my case? What's the risk inherent to a forensic image? PROTEGGA is here to answer these questions and help guide you through the high-tech world of mainframes, Unix, databases, client server computing, cloud computing, LAN, WAN, SAN , MAN, NAS, Online, Offline, Near-Line, Internet, programming code, and list goes on..

Dealing with e-discovery is costly and often overwhelming. Some of the issues faced include:
  • identification (what exactly is responsive)
  • proper preservation (pristine copies, metadata preservation)
  • collection (where is it & how will it be collected)
  • searching and deduplication (reducing the reviewable information)
  • review and analysis (responsive documents)
  • production (native, tiff, PDF, metadata) (compressed, damaged, encrypted, password protected)
  • shear volume and the dynamic nature of electronic evidence

PROTEGGA provides a cost-effective alternative for e-discovery. Unlike some of the competition, PROTEGGA is licensed by the State of Texas and can legally function in any area of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model displayed below. PROTEGGA has extensive Corporate Information Systems experience in a variety of industries and technologies. Additionally, PROTEGGA is committed to reducing the cost of e-discovery and has set its rates accordingly.

NOTE
There are 3 major issues within the e-discovery field today:

(1) Licensing --> While it is true that anyone can collect, recover, search, and deduplicate information, there are 2 phases, shown below, an unlicensed company cannot perform. Review and Analysis phases require investigative and analytical functions that are strictly governed by the State of Texas under Chapter 1702 of the Occupations Code. One may also question the Preservation phase as well.

(2) IT Exposure --> Most e-discovery firms originated in old-school litigation support companies and as such are severely limited in their exposure to Corporate Information Systems. The same is true of those originating in law enforcement.

(3) Cost --> Spiraling costs are one of the reasons for the December 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. e-Discovery pricing is definitely out of control. One firm charged over $75,000 for work that should have cost around $30,000. Another firm bragged about making over $750/hour due to their per piece pricing structure.

Electronic Discovery Reference Model
www.edrm.net

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