Manage Document Preservation

Ensuring chain of custody during eDiscovery, together with access to native documents and their hidden, embedded metadata is a key challenge for high-productivity review and production.


The new “electronic discovery” amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure emphasize native file format production. Moreover, the clear trend in the case law, even before the applicable date for the amended Rules, was that native format file requests are likely to be granted, particularly if the requester can present some reason for which they are required. This includes recognition of the importance of metadata, which can be easily lost when files are converted from their native format to images like TIFF or PDF.

Most in-house systems and many of the older online systems require that all documents first be converted from their native formats to TIFF or PDF. That conversion takes time and costs money. Documents converted into TIFF and PDF may need to be re-converted back into the original, native format.

The Stratify Legal Discovery™ service was designed to fulfill these requirements as the most easy-to-use, efficient eDiscovery solution available to law firms and corporate counsel.

Avoid unnecessary conversion. Conversion to TIFF is a time-consuming, costly and duplicative process, especially when native documents must also be preserved. Attorneys and reviewers are under pressure to initiate their review as fast as possible, and need efficient and flexible eDiscovery processing and review that only native file processing can provide.
Learn how native file processing accelerates review and preserves metadata.

Extract and manage metadata. From the hundreds of file types in existence it is not unusual to encounter obsolete or non-standard file formats as part of the document set during eDiscovery. The eDiscovery application must be able to extract appropriate metadata from each of these file types. In addition, attorneys must be able to view all of these files, and for file types of their choosing they need to be able to view the embedded metadata such as “track changes” in MS-Word or formulae or hidden columns in MS-Excel.
Discover how easy it is to preserve critical metadata.

Highlight and redact in real time. During review, attorneys need to highlight documents for subsequent workflow, and redact documents to exclude privileged information during production. To preserve documents and prevent spoliation the eDiscovery application must apply highlighting and/or redactions to a different instance, ensuring that redactions are completely removed for production.
Find out how to highlight and redact while preserving native documents.

Improve production. Case administrators need to be able to easily and quickly identify and verify documents for a production set, and then create native-file production sets as appropriate.
Learn more about production and managing document preservation.

The Stratify Legal Discovery service offers advanced capabilities that accelerate review while guarding against document spoliation and ensuring native file production. Learn more about these key capabilities: