eDiscovery
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On December 1, 2006, new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) went in effect. These new amendments put CIO's and IT departments on the firing
line in most business litigation situations. The new regulations, adopted by the U. S. Supreme Court, say businesses must be able to to quickly find such data
when required by the federal courts. That means that every electronic document stored by businesses, including emails, instant messages, financials, text, and graphics
must be easily retrievable.
Rule 26(a)
is the general provision governing discovery and covers a parties duty to disclose information.
Rule 26(b)(2)(B)
puts the obligation on a producing party to search for and produce relevant and non-priviledged information electronically stored information.
Rule 26(f)
requires parties meet as soon as practicable in regards to information discovery to discuss any issues relating to preserving discoverable information.
Rule 34
covers the productions of documents, electronically stored information, and things and entry upon land for inspection and other purposes.
Rule 37(f)
limits rule-based sanctions for failure to provide information in discovery when the loss results from a "routine, good-faith" operation.
SearchIn provides automatic organization and keyword query access to electronic documents and records.
Search queries can be targeted down to specific metadata fields, file attributes, or file content. Users can manage their
electronic documents by assigning their own metadata tags to files, such as case number, supeona number, or retention date for your eDiscovery needs. Search
query results can be acted on immediately to provide comprehensive data mangement capabilities including archiving. BlackBall's SearchIn software solution can
easily manage all of your electonic documents and records.
SearchIn's unstructured database is tightly coupled with a file management system, and search engine technology so you can find any data, anywhere, while
keeping track of the relationships between different sets of data and records.
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