Synopsis Part 1: What IT and Legal need to know to improve Electronic Data Discovery processes
Synopsis Part 2: Litigation readiness using proactive intelligent collection and preservation
Electronic Data Discovery Interview – John Ashley, EVP of Electronic Evidence in First Advantage’s Investigative and Litigation Support Services (NASDAQ:FADV) segment (Part 2 of 2) (Part 1 of 2)
Mr.
Ashley is a former British Detective who has been investigating
computer crime since 1989. Specific case work includes illegal
pornography, business accounting fraud, terrorism and murder. More
recently John has worked closely with many technologies, including all
of the prominent email platforms.
By Joshua Konkle writing for dcig.com
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Interviewers Note: In a recent press release by First Advantage Investigative and Litigation Support Services, they announced GlobalRPM(TM). GlobalRPM is a new name for their electronic data discovery review tool with key features around security designed to address offshore review. Lower cost offshore review would enable First Advantage to review more document-pages at less cost. DCIG will investigate the cost per document-page with this new option.
Joshua Konkle: What is causing the need for intelligent preservation/collection by the corporation?
John Ashley: The advent of the PC and the resultant data storage across the many machines in an organization, all of which is potentially responsive and may need to be preserved in litigation. If data were stored and preserved centrally, the collection burden would be greatly reduced.
As the amount of data and litigation increases, the cost to address this in reactive one-off scenarios will exceed the cost to implement a proactive data indexing and classification technology.
Joshua Konkle: There appears to be some gap between what legal teams require to support eDiscovery and the capabilities available today in data management technology. What advice do you have as an expert assisting clients in addressing litigation readiness challenges?
John Ahsley: Legal teams tend to only focus on active space on laptops and desktop hard drives. There are many applications designed to acquire email, database, office files, etc., but many companies are overlooking unallocated space on local PCs. This space is clearly important because it will contain deleted files and email, so preserving the total physical drive space is critical. The Federal Rules clearly apply to all ESI including data stored in unallocated space.
Part 1 of DCIGs interview with Mr. John Ashley appeared earlier this month.
If you would like to communicate with him directly, he can be reached at First Advantage Sterling, VA offices, 703 230 3000.
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