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E-Discovery & Litigation Support Services in Asia

February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Global EDD Group provides and manages a wide range of electronic discovery and litigation support services from our technology base in Singapore, including:

We have resources that cover the entire region, including such key business cities as Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Tapei, Toyko and points in between.  Law Firms , Corporations and Vendors interested in learning more about the services offered by Global EDD Group should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), email info@globaledd.asia, or visit http://www.e-discovery.asia for additional information.

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Mobile Device Data Collection from Global EDD Group

January 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Everyone seems to have a smart phone. These devices store a wide variety of information, some not even apparent to the owner. Our data collection teams are equipped to retrieve data from cell phones and other mobile devices in a forensically sound manner that preserves the evidence, ensuring that it is admissible in court proceedings.

The extent to which we can recover data is heavily based on the cell phone or device model. However, we can extract some useful data from about 95% of all cellular phones on the market today, including smartphones and PDA devices (Palm OS, Microsoft, Blackberry, Symbian, iPhone, and Google Android).

Here are some of the types of information we can gather:

  • Phonebook contacts
  • Phone details: IMEI / ESN and Phone number
  • ICCID and IMSI
  • SIM location information: TMSI, MCC, MNC, LAC
  • Text messages including deleted SMS off SIM / USIM
  • Call logs ( Missed / Dialed / Received including deleted call histories off SIM / USIM )
  • Pictures
  • Videos
  • Audio files
  • Ringtones
  • Geo tagging pictures and mapping through Google Earth
  • Password Extraction
  • Bypass SIM Locked phones (carrier lock) when original SIM is not available.
  • Unicode Extraction for Multiple Languages
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Guided Self Collect, an electronic discovery service of Global EDD Group

January 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Guided Self Collect™ is a service that enables the collection of electronic data from geographically dispersed locations.  After detailed consultation with the legal team and information technology staff, Global EDD Group issues specially prepared compact discs and external hard drives to be used for the collection of each custodian’s data under the guidance and supervision of Global EDD Group forensic technicians via remote communication channels.

Guided Self Collect from Global EDD Group

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Global EDD Group and Litigation Edge at LegalTech® New York 2012

January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Brad Mixner, President of Global EDD Group and Director of Litigation Edge (Singapore),  will be attending LegalTech® New York 2012 being held 30 January – 01 February at the New York Hilton.  Mr. Mixner will be available for one-on-one meetings to discuss the exciting new services offered by Global EDD Group and Litigation Edge, including:

  1. iReview Analytics™ Early Case Assessment Tool
  2. Automated Knowledge Discovery Services, featuring Advanced Text Analytics
  3. E-Discovery Services in the Asia Pacific region
  4. iReview Global Discovery Platform™ with hosting in the United States and Singapore
  5. Data Collection Services across North America, Asia and Europe
  6. Flat Rate Pricing for Bundled E-Discovery Services
  7. Preferred Partner Program for Vendors
Those interested in scheduling a meeting with Mr. Mixner may email, Tweet or Post a request.




About LegalTech:








LegalTech® is the largest and most important legal technology event of the year.With trade shows in both New York and Los Angeles, LegalTech® is the #1 Resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management.


LegalTech® provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice AND offers an expansive exhibit floor with the most extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet your current and future technology needs.


The legal marketplace has tremendous buying power that resists dips in our ever-changing business economy. For this reason, competition in the legal industry is fierce and making face-to-face connections is often the difference between your company closing a sale and losing that sale to your competitor. For over a quarter of a century LegalTech® has been there to help you even the playing field. (http://www.legaltechshow.com/r5/cob_page.asp?category_code=ltech)








 


 


 


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Advanced E-Discovery Text Analytics from Global EDD Group

		
		
January 24, 2012  By  Leave a Comment 
		

			


Modern organizations have access to abundant sources of data that contain jewels of useful knowledge.  Emails, web pages, memos, call center transcripts, survey responses, claims notes, legal cases, patent descriptions, research articles, and incident reports – all hold valuable pieces of knowledge that are hard to discover because they are hidden within large volumes of raw data or structured datasets not typically indexed for key term searching.  Overwhelmed by the glut and variety of data, law firms and corporations are seeking new methods to analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data to not only discover key knowledge, but to create case or review strategy as well.


Automated Knowledge Discovery & E-Discovery Text Analytics


Automated Knowledge Discovery (“AKD”) is our service that derives knowledge from text and structured data, including XML files, databases, spreadsheets, web sites, documents, and emails using Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Interactive Visualization and Report Generation.  AKD enables you to gain valuable insight into large diverse data sets by leveraging intelligent data mining and analysis tools to undertake a range of knowledge discovery tasks, including:


Data Source Integration


    

  • XML Files
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  • Spreadsheets
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  • Email / PST Files / Exchange Datastores
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  • File Shares
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  • Databases
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  • Delimited Files
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  • RSS Feeds
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  • Web Sites
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Distinct Text Identification 


Compares records to determine whether they are duplicates, though comparison is fuzzy in the sense that the two values do not have to be 100% identical in content and form.  Similar to “near duplicate indentication”.


Key Term Linking


Generates a visualization of associations between various keywords so that that relationships between words are well-represented in a set of documents or a column of text values.


Text Clustering


Utilizes phrases find and identify similar groups of documents or records based on the contents of text.


Entity Extraction


    

  • Dates
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  • Human names
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  • Organizations
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  • Addresses
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  • Phones
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  • Money Amount
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  • Geographic Names
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Keyword Extraction


Determines the important concepts discussed in a text via the identification the most frequent keywords and the ability to drill down on each keywords to see how the words are being mentioned.


Phrase Extraction


Statistical determination of phrases by examining the co-occurrences of consecutive words within the text. Stated more simply, if two words occur next to each other repeatedly in several sentences across several documents, it can be statistically assumed that these words constitute a phrase.


Link Analysis


Displays correlations and clusters of terms extracted from a set of documents or text values with the ability to drill down to review the specific relationships.


Complex Searching


Searches for phrases, proximity, by sentence or paragraph, synonyms and alternate term forms and enables the ability to see a ranked list of matching records, search within the results of previous searches, refine search query by providing positive and negative document-based relevance feedback, and  the highlighting of occurrences of words in documents for easy navigation.


Our Automated Knowledge Discovery Services provide valuable insight to any collection of discovery data, far beyond key term browsing typically associated with litigation support systems, many of which simply do not have the ability to process structured data such as SQL databases or “as found” versions of email stores.  Additional benefits of AKD Services include:


    

  • Mobile platform deployable worldwide
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  • Fee structure based on time, not volume
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  • No long term commitments, user fees or storage fees
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  • Compliments, not replaces, current review workflows and systems
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  • Ideal platform for data sampling
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aw Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about Automated Discovery Services should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), email info@globaledd.com, or visit http://www.globaleddgroup.com/Data-Analytics/Automated-Knowledge-Discovery.html for additional information. Global EDD Group also provides these services under subcontract to other industry vendors and service providers.


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Global EDD Group Celebrates The Year Of The Dragon With Expanded Asia Pacific Services

		
		
January 24, 2012  By  Leave a Comment 
		

			


Regional Resources Expanded To Include Singapore-based Early Case Assessment Tools, Document Review Platforms and CJK First Pass Review Services


Singapore, SG and Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (24 January 2011) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative electronic discovery solutions across the globe, today announced the expansion of electronic discovery services offered by Global EDD Group (APAC) to law firms, corporations and vendors supporting litigation, mergers and investigations originating from the United States.


With the recent expansion, Global EDD Group (APAC) now is able to offer the following services within the Asia Pacific region:


◊  Data Collection, Preservation & Analysis

◊  Imaging & Coding

◊  Unicode OCR

◊  Automated Language Translation

◊  ESI Processing

◊  Early Case Assessment Tools (Singapore-based Hosting)

◊  Document Review Platform (SIngapore-based Hosting)

◊  Chinese, Japanese & Korean (CJK) First Pass Review

◊  Onsite Processing & Review Systems


Law Firms , Corporations and Vendors interested in learning more about the services offered by Global EDD Group should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), email info@globaledd.asia, or visit http://www.e-discovery.asia for additional information.


About Global EDD Group (APAC)


Global EDD Group (APAC) provides or manages a wide range of electronic discovery services throughout the Asia-Pacific region from a central technology hub in Singapore, SG. Global EDD Group (APAC) shares resources with sister company Litigation Edge Pte Ltd (www.litiedge.com), a Singapore e-discovery consultancy where Global EDD Group President Brad Mixner serves as a Director.


About Global EDD Group


Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Additional information is available by visiting http://www.GlobalEDDGroup.com .


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Global EDD Group Introduces iReview Analytics™ for Electronic Discovery

		
		
January 20, 2012  By  Leave a Comment 
		

			




 


 


 


Early Case Assessment Tool Features Text Analytics, Latent Semantic Indexing & Seamless Integration With Full Review Platform


Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (20 January 2011) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative electronic discovery solutions across the globe, announces the release of iReview Analytics™, an early case/data assessment tool for electronic discovery matters.  iReview Analytics leverages advanced text analytics based on latent semantic indexing to provide users with unique insight within large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) associated with litigation and investigations.




The sheer volume of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) in companies and government organizations challenges any organization to understand the costs of e-discovery and prepare for each step of litigation. Even with data already in litigation hold and through a first pass filter there can be a tremendous volume to sift through, leaving many uncertainties.  iReview Analytics provides users with a data analysis that identifies key concepts, categorizes those concepts and then provides the ability to sample the documents based on the most relevant categories. This early data assessment provide the information required to understand potential review costs and prepare for Rule 26 meet and confer, both at a fraction of the cost typically associated with similar tools or full review platforms.


A brief summary of iReview Analytics™ capabilities includes:


Concept Search – Using advanced mathematic formulas to allow users to find similar, related, and relevant documents based purely on the concepts those documents are discussing – without using keywords, and without retrieving “matching, yet irrelevant” content.


Categorization – Allows users to define categories by means of examples. Based on the exemplars, iReview Analytics and CAAT technology automatically categorizes incoming documents.


Instant Context (Contextual Explanation) – Helps users understand unfamiliar terminology. The user clicks on an unfamiliar term and iReview Analytics with CAAT highlights similar terms found in related text.


Language Analytics – Within any single language, iReview Analytics with CAAT can be applied to any topic, vocabulary or language that can be represented in the Unicode encoding system. In a cross-lingual mode, users can submit queries in English while searching documents in other languages.


Summarization – Automatically identifies sentences in a document that best represent key concepts, and uses those sentences to give users a quick summary of the entire document.


Dynamic Clustering – Allows a user to point iReview Analytics with CAAT to a set of documents and then allow iReview Analytics with CAAT to dynamically group conceptually-similar documents together in a tree-type hierarchy and finally, to apply a descriptive title to each cluster of documents.


Near Duplicate Document Detection – Uses iReview Analytics with CAAT Dynamic Clustering to identify and group documents that are duplicates and/or near-duplicate documents, as well as identifying the extent of duplication.


Integration With Full Review Platform - iReview Analytics integrates seamlessly with the iReview Global Discovery Platform, a robust document review platform offered by Global EDD Group.  This integration increases efficiency and reduces both processing time and cost.


Law Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about Automated Discovery Services should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), emailinfo@globaledd.com, or visit http://www.globaleddgroup.com/Document-Review/iReview-Analytics.html for additional information. Global EDD Group also provides these services under subcontract to other industry vendors and service providers.


About Global EDD Group


Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA with a regional office in Singapore, SG, Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Additional information is available by visiting http://www.GlobalEDDGroup.com .




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Introducing iReview Analytics™ Early Case Assessment Tool for Electronic Discovery

		
		
January 17, 2012  By  Leave a Comment 
		

			


The sheer volume of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) in companies and government organizations challenges any organization to understand the costs of e-discovery and prepare for each step of litigation. Even with data already in litigation hold and through a first pass filter there can be a tremendous volume to sift through, leaving many uncertainties.


The question then becomes this: How do you extract the information you need in order to understand the potential costs of a full review without undertaking a full review — and still be prepared for a Rule 26 meet and confer?


iReview Analytics™ from Global EDD Group is an early case assessment (ECA) tool that gives you the insight you need to be prepared. iReview Analytics utilizes CAAT, a powerful example of a new class of technologies known as “Text Analytics”, to transform large volumes of unstructured data, such as documents, emails, and publications, into relevant, actionable information. Text Analytics automate most of the human activity traditionally associated with ECA to understand, organize, prioritize and retrieve information from large sources of unstructured data.


iReview Analytics was developed in partnership with Content Analyst Analytical Technology (CAAT), a leading developer of advanced analytics for searching and analyzing unstructured text. iReview Analytics includes the CAAT engine – a unique, patented software system that provides advanced Conceptual Search functions based on Latent Semantic Indexing. This search technology enables iReview Analytics to acquire all its search intelligence from the actual documents being indexed. Unlike other solutions, iReview Analytics does not require external dictionaries or thesauri. It works across foreign languages, even searching – and finding – relevant documents in different languages –without prior translation.


iReview Analytics returns to you an analysis of your data that identifies key concepts, categorizes those concepts and then provides you the ability to sample the documents based on the most relevant categories. This early case assessment gives you the information you need to understand costs and prepare for Rule 26 meet and confer at a fraction of the cost of a full review.


iReview Analytics™ Capabilities:


Concept Search – Using advanced mathematic formulas to allow users to find similar, related, and relevant documents based purely on the concepts those documents are discussing – without using keywords, and without retrieving “matching, yet irrelevant” content.


Categorization – Allows users to define categories by means of examples. Based on the exemplars, iReview Analytics and CAAT technology automatically categorizes incoming documents.


Instant Context (Contextual Explanation) – Helps users understand unfamiliar terminology. The user clicks on an unfamiliar term and iReview Analytics with CAAT highlights similar terms found in related text.




Language Analytics – Within any single language, iReview Analytics with CAAT can be applied to any topic, vocabulary or language that can be represented in the Unicode encoding system. In a cross-lingual mode, users can submit queries in English while searching documents in other languages.


Summarization – Automatically identifies sentences in a document that best represent key concepts, and uses those sentences to give users a quick summary of the entire document.


Dynamic Clustering – Allows a user to point iReview Analytics with CAAT to a set of documents and then allow iReview Analytics with CAAT to dynamically group conceptually-similar documents together in a tree-type hierarchy and finally, to apply a descriptive title to each cluster of documents.


Near Duplicate Document Detection – Uses iReview Analytics with CAAT Dynamic Clustering to identify and group documents that are duplicates and/or near-duplicate documents, as well as identifying the extent of duplication.


Learn more about iReview Analytics and Global EDD Group by clicking to http://www.globaleddgroup.com/


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Data Mapping Services for Electronic Discovery & Information Governance

		
		
December 8, 2011  By  Leave a Comment 
		

			


Quite often technology staff and legal teams do not have a clear picture of the data contained on corporate servers beyond gross volumes and which staff or teams have access to the environment.  Techicians from Global EDD Group are able to analyze custodian computers and network servers while they are online, capturing key data points with minimal impact to business operations.


This analysis enables Global EDD Group to compose detailed statistics and reports that provide valuable knowledge regarding the contents of each computer or server.  In turn, This knowledge enables legal teams to selectively prioritize specific data points, identify potential issues and exclude specific data types very early in the discovery process.  This service is also quite useful with large volumes of unstructured data that is stored offline on hard drives and NAS devices.


The following outlines the statistics, reports and charts/graphs that Global EDD Group is able to generate during the Data Mapping process:


Statistics


◊  Number of Directories


◊  Name of Each Directory


◊  Size of Each Directory


◊  Last Access Date


◊  Directory Owner


◊  Path Length


◊  Number of Files


◊  Largest Files


◊  Age of Files


◊  File Extensions


◊  File Extension Type Groupings


◊  MD5 Checksums


Reports


◊  Dynamic Directory Structure (XML)


◊  Detailed Content Summary (Database, XML, Spreadsheet, Text File, HTML)


◊  File Extension Summary (Spreadsheet, Text)


◊  User Summary (Spreadsheet, Text)


◊  Largest Files (Spreadsheet, Text)


Charts / Graphs


◊  Contents


◊  Size


◊  File Extension


◊  Distribution


◊  User


◊  Age


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VeHOLD™ Automated Litigation Hold, An Enterprise Solution from Global EDD Group

		
		
December 6, 2011  By  Leave a Comment 
		

			


VeHOLD™ Automated Litigation Hold Solution
VeHOLD™ Automated Litigation Hold Solution


VeHOLD™ is an automated litigation hold solution that enables clients to fully engage a litigation hold from the designated administrator’s desktop. The administrator simply inputs the requisite criteria (date range, custodian, file type, terms), and VeHOLD will identify, collect and preserve relevant Electronically Stored Information (“ESI”) from designated data and/or e-mail servers without the need for custodial or IT assistance.


VeHOLD was designed to minimize the risk of spoliation due to inadvertent or intentional destruction of relevant ESI by automating the collection and quarantine process. Simply, VeHOLD operates on a nightly basis indexing all additions and edits to the pre-existing data storage pool so when a potential litigation is recognized the automated application can be engaged to identify and quarantine ESI particular to that matter.


The advantages of VeHOLD are:




    

  • Meeting criteria as set forth in Zubalake and Pension Committee
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  • Eliminating the need for, and potential mishaps associated with custodial and/or IT collection of ESI
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  • Minimizing exposure to sanctions due to spoliation of ESI by inadvertent or intentional destruction of ESI
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  • Managing and engaging a litigation hold from a desk top
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  • Collecting forensically and legally defensible ESI
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  • Assessing and filtering ESI prior to actual collection
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  • Reducing costs associated with exponential and unnecessary collection of non relevant ESI
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  • Managing and updating litigation hold as warranted
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  • Providing a simple interface that expedites issuance and management of a litigation hold
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  • Automating the collection of ESI so no business interruption occurs
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  • Creating a cost-effective application that is tailored to client’s demand
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Law Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about VeHold should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), email info@globaledd.com, or visit http://www.globaleddgroup.com/Enterprise-Solutions/Automated-Litigation-Hold.html for additional information. Global EDD Group also provides these services under subcontract to other industry vendors and service providers.


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