E-Discovery

It’s a cyber-world out there where information is received and exchanged in the blink of any eye. This means lawyer’s face an infinite amount of discoverable information like email messages, word processing documents and spreadsheets, not to mention information on cell phones and security devices. Blend Litigation Support offer’s the most advanced eDiscovery capabilities to help you gain control over this plethora of information. We know electronic data processing must follow proven methodologies to be effective and accurate, as well as utilize the latest technologies. We work closely with our clients to deliver the most time and cost effective solutions.

Blend Litigation Support offers complete Electronic Discovery services from loading and analyzing to production sets. Below is a list of our standard eDiscovery services:

Case Analysis and Strategy Formation
File Summary Reporting
Electronic De-duplication
Search/Filter/Cull Data
E-loads for Native File Review
Convert Native Documents to Images
Electronic Document Numbering & Endorsing
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Standard or Custom Load File Creation
Load File Conversion
Tiff to PDF Conversion
Electronic Media Duplication
Online Case Hosting
Case Analysis and Strategy Formation

Your Project Manager is involved from the initial meeting through the final transmission. At the beginning of production, we offer our clients consulting services and take pride in helping them find the most effective and cost efficient manner of generating documents and tackling their eDiscovery needs.

File Summary Reporting

To help determine the scope of a project, our EDD solutions have the ability to generate a File Summary Report with information on file types, file size, estimated page count and other important information. This report is critical to the review and analysis of electronically stored information and allows both the client and Project Manager to assess the scale of the project.

Electronic De-Duplication (EDD)

Our EDD software has the capability to recognize over 10.5 million different common files and eliminates irrelevant files such as executables, DLL’s, system files and duplicate files. Password-protected, encrypted, corrupted, and unprocessable files are then flagged to avoid unnecessary surprises and delays. Using selected fields, email and attachments can be de-duplicated from email fields such as: From, BCC, Date and Time Sent, Subject, Body and Attachments. A unique algorithm is then used to create a hash value and this hash value is used throughout the process to provide a rational and defensible chain-of-custody.

Search/Filter/Cull Data

Known File Identification, Date Range Searching and Keyword Searching help to reduce the amount of data for reviewing. Searching capabilities available by: File Type, File Extension, Date Range, Keywords and by Metadata Fields. Once the relevant documents are identified they can be tagged for production and further review.

E-loads for Native File Review

Review your data before you produce. Native file review and analysis leads to a significant reduction in the number of relevant documents and can reduce your review workload and save you thousands of dollars.

Convert Native Documents to Images

Our EDD solution supports dozens of file types, easily converting your native documents to black and white or color images, capturing all full text from text based files and all document metadata from the electronic files.

Electronic Document Numbering & Endorsing

Document numbering is one of the most time consuming processes in document productions. We can electronically endorse over 20,000 images per hour. We offer multiple endorsement options and can customize the font, position and size of each endorsement.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Rely on the results of OCR to immediately key word search tens of thousands of documents.

Standard or Custom Load File Creation

Our technology makes load files effortless so they work perfectly the first time. We support all popular formats including, but not limited to, Summation, Concordance, IPRO, CaseLogistix, Introspect, CaseMap, Ringtail, Sanction, Trial Director, iCONECT, OmniDox, JFS Litigator’s Notebook, Doculex, BlueTrace, DocuMatrix, LaserFiche, TotalVzn, PDF’s and PDF files with bookmarks. We can provide standard load fields or customize them to your exact specifications.

Load File Conversion

Receive a load file in the wrong form? We can import and convert it for use in your preferred database.

Tiff to PDF Conversion

Don’t have an in-house review tool? Not a problem. We can provide you, opposing counsel or co-counsel with fully-searchable PDF files that exactly mirror your production.

Electronic Media Duplication

CD’s, DVD’s, jump drives, external hard drives and more. We will copy your files and duplicate any labels as necessary.