Electronic Discovery and Evidence

Comparison of Search Tools

Desktop Search Matrix

Compare Desktop Search Tools - AOL, Autonomy, ISYS, etc.

Goebel Group Inc.

Integrated Search Engine

(4-23-04) IBM expands search push with Masala. "The computing giant, based in Armonk, N.Y., is gearing up to release Masala, a new version of its DB2 Information Integrator software that will let corporate employees retrieve information from databases, applications and the Web at the same time. Subsequent improvements will include a data-mining component code-named Criollo. . . Several large and small companies are devising technology to help people retrieve foreign-language documents, 3D and 2D drawings, old e-mails and other hard-to-find material from the nether regions of their hard drives."

Comment: With software advances of this nature court decisions based on the reasoning of Zubulake regarding electronic discovery and electronic evidence will have to be revisited.

Electronic Discovery Filtering Software

Autonomy's Aungate Total Communications Management Solution Honored (1/27/04).

" Autonomy Corporation . . .a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that it has been distinguished as a leader by Transform Magazine for the 2003 Product of the Year award within the enterprise search category. . . .Introduced in June 2003, Aungate is the only solution available that enables corporations to automatically analyze, review, understand and act upon any internal communications, including telephone calls, email and instant messages, to ensure that business communications meet appropriate codes of conduct and comply with specific industry regulations. For companies in highly regulated industries such as financial services, investment banking and litigation support, Aungate provides the ideal solution to achieve total communications compliance without the high cost of manual intervention. Aungate is founded on Autonomy's unique Intelligent Data Operating Layer
(IDOL), a technology platform that integrates unstructured, semi-structured and structured information from multiple repositories through an understanding of their content. At the heart of Autonomy's software is its ability to process text, voice and video, and identify and rank the main concepts within them.

Comment: To limit the "smoking guns" in electronic discovery software is used to filter inappropriate electronic evidence such as e-mail. During discovery request copies of all e-mail filter files that contains the inappropriate electronic evidence such as e-mail.

Print Virtually Any File Without the Native Application - Quick View Plus

"Quick View Plus 7 lets you view, copy and print virtually any file without the need for native applications. Click here for Supported File Formats. The cost is $35 for a software copy.
COMMENT: This is a must have software application!

Compare directories identify & remove duplicates

"Beyond Compare is a utility for comparing things. Things like text files, folders, zip archives, and FTP sites. Use it to manage source code, keep folders in sync, compare program output, and validate CD copies. Beyond Compare can create a snapshot of a live directory structure, and compare it against the live copy at a later date."

Comment: Can be used in electronic discovery and production. Can compare duplicates based on filename, size and dates.

Search Audio Files

iCite (http://www.icitelegal.com/audiodiscovery.html).

"Legal discovery isn't just about retrieving the data from electronic documents like word files, email, and accounting spreadsheets. It's about retrieving all the data—including audio recordings from answering machines, call center backup tapes, and trading floor transactions. . . AudioCite(sm) is iCite's own audio indexing, hosting and retrieval capability. . . AudioCite's unique phonetic search technology can retrieve any word, name, or phrase from audio data, regardless of speaker or dialect, with up to 98 percent precision. . . It can:

Convert proprietary formatted audio information to .WAV or .mpg files phonetically
Index the .WAV or .mpg files phonetically
Provide a powerful phoneme-based search engine
Create .mp3 files for streaming retrieval over the Internet
Host the audio files on its secure network. "

Other links: NEXminer from Nexidia (http://www.nexidia.com)

Electronic Software - Press Release

Ibis Introduces Bundled Electronic Discovery Services and Data Packaging Offerings
"PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Ibis Consulting, Inc., the
leading provider of data conversion services for electronic discovery,
announced the release of three bundled service offerings, Ibis
TotalControl(SM) Electronic Discovery Service, Ibis ScopeControl(SM)
Electronic Discovery Service, and Ibis ImagePrint(SM) Electronic Discovery
Service. In addition, Ibis announced the release of the two new data
packaging offerings, Ibis MailArchive(SM) Electronic Data Packaging and Ibis
NativeFile(SM) Electronic Data Packaging. . . ."

Summation and Electronic Evidence

Working With Electronic Evidence with Summation

"Traditional 'paper' documents have been sought in the legal discovery process for hundreds of years. Yet an attorney fifty years ago – or five years ago, for that matter-- would have been perplexed as to how to introduce the emails around Merrill Lynch into evidence. . . And those involved in litigation need a way to deal with it!

The latest generation of litigation support products from Summation – Version 2 of Summation Blaze® LG -- include new tools for working with electronic evidence. I’ll explain those tools in a moment. However, it might first be useful to explain how non-electronic evidence – which is to say, old-fashioned paper documents – are stored and searched in Summation."

Print Files Software

PrintFile is a freeware Microsoft Windows utility program that will enable you to print files. The program recognizes plain text, PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and binary formats. http://www.lerup.com/printfile/

Print Directory Lists

Rjh Extensions v1.3v - Freeware - This utility adds some useful capabilities including the capability to print and save directory lists. http://www.rjhsoftware.com/downloads.html