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• Tagging documents as responsive if they correspond • Servient
to user-determined search criteria • Catalyst
• Batch assignment for human review, including • Compliance Discovery Solutions
clustering to create batches of documents with similar
content to make the batches more meaningful • Veritas Clearwell Ediscovery

• Detailed rule-based enforcement of relationships • KLDiscovery
between tagging options (for example, a document Many of these products are leased or licensed to the law
may not be tagged as both responsive and privileged) firm/corporate legal department based on the amount
• Auditing systems that ensure consistent treatment of of data being hosted, the number of users accessing the
documents both within an individual case as well as system, and any ancillary services that are included.
across multiple related cases

Common uses for electronic evidence
Tools and techniques repositories

There are numerous providers of electronic evidence Commonly, law firms and corporate legal departments
repository software and services. A key distinction is have multiple large cases and investigations, requiring
whether the repository is physically maintained on-site maintenance of large volumes of electronic data. After
or if it is hosted by a third-party vendor. With an on-site the collection of electronic evidence has occurred,
application, the software and data are loaded onto a the data are stored in the repository and analyzed for
server that is maintained at a location typically managed document type, dates, subject and other information.
by the client or its investigation team. This may require Usually, forensic accountants request a subset of the
the presence of data specialists to perform custom documents relating to the engagement and the required
searches, data analytics and administrative functions, analysis. These could include general ledgers, sales and
including registering all users authorized to access the expense information, and financial reports but might
data. When the repository is cloud-based, the software also include communications and other non-financial
and data is typically maintained by the cloud services evidence.
provider on its own servers and accessed via a secure
internet connection. Access, transmission time and As the analyses progress, the forensic accountant may
overall cost must be considered when searching and request additional documents or suggest additional
analysing large amounts of data. search strategies to identify relevant documents. These
searches can be structured in terms of any of the
Among the providers in the data repository space are: following criteria or combination of criteria:
• Relativity • Document type

• Lexis/Nexis Concordance • Author or recipient
• Applied Discovery • Creation date, approval date or a range of dates
• Ringtail/NUIX • Dollar amount or quantity
• TERIS • Customer or vendor name or product

• Consilio • Specific keywords or phrases
• EPIQ Systems • Emails with attachments only

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