Case evidence gathering & management
In times of widespread digitalisation, a shift from paper to electronic documentation not only is a natural step forward but also greatly enhances the efficiency of evidence gathering and management of evidence throughout the legal proceedings.
We support our Clients in the following areas:
- Searching of IT systems (e.g. email correspondence, ERP, financial/ accounting systems, etc.) to identify and obtain relevant evidence;
- Obtaining relevant evidence from publicly available sources of information (press archives, Internet, commercial databases, public registers, etc.)
- Digitalisation of paper files (scanning, characters recognition – OCR)
- Configuration of IT platform for managing and review of evidence, including advanced search using different criteria;
- Providing secure remote access to electronic data for multiple reviewers from any location in the world;
- Ongoing assistance and technical support in using remote review platform.
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If you need advice on whether this service will be suitable for your case, I will be happy to answer your questions.
Case evidence gathering & management in Questa
A client’s own IT systems, financial-accounting data, publicly available information, and counterparty electronic data gathered during discovery, can represent important sources of evidence to support clients and counsel during disputes.
While a simple scan of case files avoids carrying heavy binders with paper files, in many cases such electronic data does not allow evidence to be searched easily or efficiently with keyword/ text searching and categorizing/ tagging of relevant evidence. Consequently, finding specific evidence in extensive case files can be both ineffective, inaccurate, and time-consuming, when time is usually a scarce resource.
Independently from digitalisation of case files/ evidence, it is becoming more and more common during discovery in various jurisdictions that evidence is provided in electronic form, e.g. email correspondence, document files, accounting records, etc.