eDiscovery: Collect Data

Stratify is well versed in the complexities and variations of data storage and collection, including foreign language data.

Stratify collaborates with alliance partners and service providers to retrieve electronic documents and data from current as well as legacy hardware systems and storage media. These include legacy computer systems, laptops, PCs, backup tapes, PDAs, USB keychain "drives", CDs, digital voice mail systems, email and instant messaging systems. Paper documents can also be collected.

The growing global nature of business and litigation increasingly is driving the need to support foreign language documents in discovery. The Stratify Legal Discovery™ service supports all European languages as well as complex languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Discovery vendors must be well versed in the complexities and variations of data storage and how languages are represented in different computer systems. Especially when dealing with multi-byte languages, developing the expertise and requisite operating procedures to correctly accommodate multiple locales (which directly impact the restoration of filenames and dates among others) and the various encoding schemes used within locales and specific programs (vendors such as Microsoft and Adobe use different encoding schemes in different applications, or even versions of applications) are critical. In the absence of such in-depth understanding and the procedures to support them data can easily be either corrupted or inaccessible in various ways.

From our long-standing foreign language experience Stratify has developed in-depth best practices for collecting foreign language documents that usually reside on systems outside of the United States.

Stratify personnel track the transfer of ownership and physical possession of all devices, as well as the transfer of electronic documents from those devices to the Stratify system.