Native File Format ESI Productions in e-Discovery & Computer Forensics
About a decade ago, virtually all electronically stored information (ESI) productions we performed were in static format (i.e., PDF/TIFF/JPG with accompanying load files). Legal review platforms were...
View ArticleForensic Analysis of Email Attachment Timestamps in Outlook
What happens to email attachment timestamps when a file is attached to an email message? As far as internal file metadata goes, nothing should change. Attaching the file does not change its contents,...
View ArticleWindows Numerical Sort: Why Numeric File Names are Sorted Differently
The Shell team at Microsoft at some point decided to improve things a bit and implemented a new way of comparing Unicode strings that contain numerals. The change took effect after Windows 2000, so...
View ArticleE-mail Conversation Index Analysis for Computer Forensics
E-mail messages contain numerous metadata fields that are utilized by computer forensic examiners as well as legal teams. One key MAPI property that is frequently extracted by computer forensics and...
View ArticleHow OCRed PDF Productions Degrade Electronic Evidence
Many legal teams use endorsed searchable PDFs as their preferred format for producing electronic evidence. I suspect that two of the most common reasons for this may be that PDFs are a format attorneys...
View Article8 Tips for Preparing a Proper TIFF Production
Legal teams often choose to prepare image productions accompanied by load files, and many of them make simple mistakes or bad choices that make it unnecessarily difficult for the recipient to utilize...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Use Outlook Instant Search for e-Discovery
Facing litigation and having to produce company documents to third parties can be an unsettling experience. Some businesses react to this by attempting to do as much of the identification, preservation...
View Article8 Common Misconceptions about Native File Productions
Native file productions are gaining more and more traction in e-Discovery, and rightfully so. However, what native format is, and its benefits and drawbacks are commonly misunderstood, occasionally...
View ArticleWord Last 10 Authors Metadata in Computer Forensics
Microsoft Office documents typically contain a great amount of metadata, some of which can be instrumental in computer forensics. While e-Discovery and computer forensics software can handle extracting...
View ArticleBates Range to List & Bates List to Range Converter
When working on computer forensics or e-Discovery projects, especially the ones that involve electronically stored information (ESI) productions based on pick lists, we frequently encounter pick lists...
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