E-discover Software Is A Great Investment For Any Law Firm
Major legal cases involve huge levels of detailed research that would take most lawyers days or even weeks worth of work
. That kind of work will cost you a lot of money to pay for and a single lawyer will still probably have to hire someone else to help with the process unless he has e-discovery software to help him get things done quickly.
The e-discovery or document procurement process of a case is split into several different phases and it can be hard to maintain your information between each of the different phases. With software the information will be maintained for you and many of the procurement steps will be automated to an extent.
Specialized software is especially useful because it tracks information for you that could have been potentially lost otherwise. Holding onto your information is vital if you have any plan of winning your case.
In the beginning you have to track down all the information and then you have to preserve it on your own storage device so that it can't be tampered with while you are waiting for the case to actually begin. The software will lend you a hand in deciding which information is actually going to be useful to you and then that information will be watched very closely to make sure it stays clean.
From there the information is processed. During processing any duplicates are removed from the system using software, and any important meta information such as the time the information was put together is extracted from the documents. This is one of them most important steps to have software for because software can take care of a lot of the work for you. All the duplicate documents can be taken out automatically and you won't have to do a thing.
When you have done the automatic processing you also have to pick out the best documents for the case by hand. This is another are the software is beneficial because it allows you to take notes right in documents and pass them on to other members of the team.
During this whole process all your information is going to be kept in the same spot and you won't have to worry about losing a single thing. This is especially useful when it is time to hand the information over to the opponent. All the information is right where you need it to be and you won't have to do anything other than send it there way which is very easy.
Even though you are going to spend additional money on good e-discovery software, it is going to save you over time as your cases are put together more efficiently, and you lose less information along the way. The software is well worth the investment as long as you have to go through the e-discovery process several different times