Our electronic discovery and litigation support services combine our expert technical knowledge, rigorous forensic approach, proven experience in legal processes and extensive toolset for collecting and processing a broad range of data for litigation and discovery.

Our skills and experience cover a wide range of electronic discovery and litigation support, from simple or complex data collection through to processing, searching, analysis, review and production, plus management and training.

How we can assist

Our experience ranges from conversion of a few documents to large and complex collection and processing involving many terabytes of data from across corporate networks.

Our electronic discovery and litigation support services include:

• Forensic collection of electronically stored information from a wide range of devices and environments, both simple and complex
• Case design, setup and data loading across sources or custodians
• Filtering of metadata such as data types, timestamps and a wide range of internal and external metadata fields
• Analysis of processing anomalies such as inaccessible and corrupt files
• Recovery and reconstruction of deleted documents and email messages
• Analysis of unknown data types and documents not containing searchable text
• Identification of image files requiring optical character recognition
• Checking consistency of key metadata fields, such as date and email address formats
• Identifying metadata outliers, such as dates outside expected ranges and zero-byte files
• Assessing levels of duplicates and effective approaches to de-duplication
• Accessing encrypted or password protected documents
• Identifying other data anomalies that may require cleansing or normalisation
• Performing both simple and complex searches using a range of metadata fields and powerful search syntax
• Legal export
• Management and support of legal review, including training of legal reviewers
• Liaising with internal and external parties including IT, legal counsel and outsourced providers.

Given the size and complexity of modern electronic discovery, we can also provide expert consulting to help you utilise electronic discovery more efficiently and strategically, such as:

• Assessing the potential cost of electronic discovery
• Reviewing approaches taken by other providers
• Advising on the technical impact of selected discovery categories, criteria and keywords
• Providing the technical basis for legal applications such as consent orders and security for cost applications.

Having provided electronic discovery services for many years, our team is also experienced in the legal processes involved and in dealing with the wide range of legal issues that can arise on such matters.

Most electronic discovery cases can be delivered using our multi-node in-house processing systems, however for matters that require exceptional processing power, we also partner with a leading provider of high scale hosted infrastructure to provide the necessary hardware capabilities for rapid data processing, searching and production.

Why choose Klein & Co.

• We are widely recognised as a leading independent Australian computer forensic practice, providing the highest levels of technical skills, expert knowledge, commercial understanding, professionalism and integrity
• We have been engaged as a trusted advisor to hundreds of satisfied clients in Australia and overseas, including top tier law firms, iconic Australian and international companies and government agencies
• As an independent team, we are free of the conflicts and overheads of other providers, enabling us to provide the highest quality of service at the best competitive rates
• All of our work is performed by our own dedicated team; we do not advertise services that we don’t provide ourselves or outsource any aspects of our work to subcontractors
• All evidence is processed and analysed on our in-house, secure computer forensic platforms; we do not send your confidential information and data to subcontractors or overseas
• We are actively involved in the international forensic technology community and maintain strong connections with leading international experts and cutting edge tools and techniques.

Some highlights of our recent electronic discovery experience include:

• 2010: we provided computer forensic and e-discovery services on a major litigation between two international companies, involving terabytes of data acquired from a corporate network of around 50 custodians including workstations, servers, email systems and backups. The engagement was delivered using an in-house electronic discovery platform for all data processing, de-duplication, filtering, searching, rendering and production.
• 2010: we were engaged by a major government agency to support the use of their in-house electronic discovery platform for investigations across commonwealth government agencies, including development of a framework for the forensic collection and analysis of electronic evidence and delivery of a training curriculum for departmental staff.
• 2011: we won a competitive bid against a ‘big 4’ consulting firm to provide electronic discovery services to an international multi-billion dollar manufacturing client. Our engagement includes providing strategic advice on their electronic discovery readiness, tailoring their workflow for data collection, training their legal and IT staff and supporting their electronic discovery for litigations.
• 2011: we also won a competitive bid against another ‘big 4’ consulting firm to provide a top tier law firm with collection, processing and searching of ESI from multiple client sites across Australia in response to government inquiries.

We can help you to assess, manage and deliver your electronic discovery requirements efficiently and effectively.

To discuss how we can assist, on a confidential basis, please contact us on:

Phone: +61 (2) 9233 3400

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