Investigation Support

how we help

 

Investigations are most often undertaken internally within organisations and companies by reviewing the documentary material, usually before a dispute is confirmed and when allegations need to be assessed and verified. 

Common scenarios include workplace incidents and accidents, bullying, harassment, director and executive conduct, irregular matters, potential offences, debts, claims, complaints, fraud and insolvency.

Inhouse Counsel, law firms and insolvency practitioners regularly rely on investigation support from eDiscovery Collab for:

  • conducting internal investigations
  • preparing claims and advices
  • assembling briefs for lawyers, barristers or experts

Challenges during an investigation process include:

  • conducting the same searches across multiple sources, such as emails, network drives, document management systems and databases
  • documents that are not fully text searchable making searches unreliable
  • reviewing duplicate documents
  • the inability to easily search across all document sets at one time
  • tracking what has been reviewed to avoid missing documents or reviewing the same documents multiple times
  • sorting documents into chronological order for review
  • filtering documents to find critical documents
  • the inability to tag documents for particular purposes
  • consistent sharing of multiple documents with parties.

eDiscovery Collab supports and delivers efficiencies designed to avoid costly mistakes during investigations:

  • Identification: finding and collecting the documents or document sources which require investigation
  • Metadata: retaining the metadata of the documents so the integrity is not compromised and you can search across it

  • Duplicates: once the documents are processed into the database, duplicates are removed
  • Text Searchable: all documents are converted to a text searchable format within the database.

What eDiscovery Collab does

  1. Explores and navigates document management and IT systems undertaking a comprehensive process of document identification, mapping and collection.
  2.  Finds and extracts all the information that could be relevant to your matter, without affecting the metadata from its original source. This avoids costs incurred to correct the issue later by objectively coding documents manually.
  3. Identifies the best eDiscovery tech platform for your matter and adds the documents to the platform.
  4. Deletes duplicate documents.
  5.  Extracts the metadata for each document so that you can search across it using variables such as document date, title, author or keywords.
  6. Converts all documents into a searchable format.
  7. Identifies entirely irrelevant documents and deletes them.
  8. Bundles together key documents, such as meeting minutes or reports, so your legal team can review key document content quickly.
  9. Recreates the structure of the documents in the litigation database that existed on the client’s premises so that lawyers can see how the documents were originally organised.
  10. Creates a structured and organised database that is easy to navigate and use.
  11. Trains your lawyers in the technology to get the right results quickly.

The complexity of managing documents and data in dispute matters today needs an expert to oversee and assist with the more complex and important aspects of the discovery process helping to significantly reduce your time and get you to the answer quickly.

At eDiscovery Collab our experts have more than 30 years’ experience and the technology know-how to deliver what is needed and provide value for money for your team and your clients.