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The Iterative e-Discovery Searching Method

From a veritable river of digital information ' including e-mails, documents, voice mails, video files, databases and other more obscure data sources ' lawyers need to extract only those specific pieces of data that will be relevant to their case. Litigators seek the e-mails, documents or other digital objects that will help exonerate their client. Knowledge of the data that a client has, good or bad, helps counsel properly build a case.

15 minute read June 26, 2007 at 02:06 PM
By
Douglas Herman
The Iterative e-Discovery Searching Method

Searching for potentially relevant documents in a huge mass of electronically stored information ('ESI') is a lot like panning for gold. Before you can get the nuggets you're looking for, you'll need not only the right tools, but also the right process.

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