What is eDiscovery?

Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) is the process of identifying and examining electronic documents related to a specific matter. eDiscovery is a key part of legal cases, internal investigations, and compliance. But without proper support, eDiscovery requests can be time-consuming and costly.

Bluesource eDiscovery experts work to optimize workflows, implement eDiscovery solutions, and manage the entire eDiscovery process. Teams across any organization can benefit from the support of Bluesource and leading eDiscovery technology.

EDRM Workflow

Bluesource has solutions for every step of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) workflow.

IDENTIFICATION

Locate potential data sources, determine the project scope, breadth and depth.

PRESERVATION + COLLECTION

Ensure data is protected against alteration or destruction. Gather data for further use in the eDiscovery process.

PROCESSING + REVIEW + ANALYSIS

Convert data to reviewable formats, review privilege and permissions, evaluate data for relevance, content, and context, and analyze patterns.

PRODUCTION

Deliver data to additional team members, or requesters, in appropriate formats and mechanisms.

PRESENTATION

Elicit further information, validate facts, or persuade an audience in a deposition, hearing, trial, etc.

eDiscovery Challenges

Partner with Bluesource and reduce common eDiscovery challenges faced by IT, legal, compliance, HR, FOIA, and security teams.

  • Data Volume: The amount of data and the variety of data (email, chats, video, audio, attachments)
  • Compliance: Keeping up with increasing regulations like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA
  • Cost: High costs for manual review, large datasets, and outsourcing data preparation
  • Chain of Custody: Ensuring data is defensible in court
  • Time: Identifying relevant content with tight deadlines

eDiscovery Outside the Courtroom

Optimize eDiscovery for your entire organization, not just the legal team.

Internal Investigations

HR and compliance teams use eDiscovery tools during employee misconduct and company policy violation investigations.

Data Security

Security teams use eDiscovery methods to analyze data security and data breaches.

Compliance & Regulations

eDiscovery tools help to quickly identify and retrieve documents in response to regulatory requests.

Information Requests

eDiscovery solutions speed up the process of fulfilling Freedom of Information Act requests and general public records requests.

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