During the construction of a case, legal teams are often challenged by the breadth, reliability or scarcity of information. Special measures are sometimes required for collecting, analyzing, coding, distributing and tracking potential evidence. What you want is a single source for the entire Discovery process, one team with the experience, expertise and technological support that will help execute a reliable and efficient effort early in the litigation life cycle. The professionals at Merrill offer these resources and add critical value during case preparation.
Digital Forensics
When fraud, deception or other ill intent is a concern, attorneys must take precautions in collecting digital evidence. Merrill specializes in bit-by-bit copying of hard drives, reconstructing digital files, tracing digital footprints that uncover user actions over time and merging this data with other information for an integrated review.
Imaging and Coding
Hard copy litigation documents have limited life unless they are converted into their digital counterpart. Accuracy is paramount, as is the quality of the image and coding of the output for later retrieval. Merrill’s imaging and coding technology is optically precise because of its fuzzy optical character recognition (OCR) software, while coding can be customized to the needs of each client. All electronic results are then easily integrated into a variety of digital formats including our own Merrill Discovery Navigator®.
eDiscovery
The prospect of reviewing and organizing large volumes of emails, attachments, spreadsheets and word processing files in their native formats can be overwhelming in the search for evidence. How can the process be simplified to refine the efforts of the review team? Merrill’s long history with electronic discovery has produced a suite of services tailored to keeping reviews of even large volumes of electronic data organized and efficient. Among the benefits are a built-in audit trail that eliminates the need to manually track document use and powerful search tools that cull through and winnow down key information. In addition, we provide an exact rendering of the electronic evidence sequentially coded with a Bates number and delivered for input into multiple formats, including TIFF and PDF.
Repository
Hosting and electronically distributing volumes of digital documents can be a challenge for any IT group, much less a legal team concerned with tracking, efficiency and cost. Merrill solves that problem with Merrill Discovery Navigator®, a full-service repository solution where images of paper or electronic documents are stored and categorized in a rigorous, case-related classification system. As a web-based information retrieval schema, Merrill Discovery Navigator® allows you to access a variety of tools that speed the case process along, from searching all the content to reviewing documents in native and standard file formats to highlighting key text, annotating key issues, creating folders of key documents and incorporating discoveries into a single database. Merrill Discovery Navigator® operates in a secure environment in any office, any city, 24 hours a day, seven days a week—and will help you avoid the overwhelming prospect of building and maintaining your own database solution.
Production
The collection and presentation of legal documents can be stymied at the final hurdle by inefficient and limited reprographic services. The professionals at Merrill eliminate this concern with a long history of exceptional service to ensure your job is done right. Our nationwide facilities are available around the clock and include the essential list of production functions: Bates numbering, Binding, Color Copying, Digital Laser Copying, Image Printing, Litigation Copying, Oversize Copying, Transparencies and Pagination.
