Evidence Collection

Navigant Consulting has been assisting law firms and corporate counsel with Discovery reviews for over two decades. We assist clients in collecting electronic and paper documents that are potentially relevant for litigation purposes. Our approach combines strong project management skills, extensive experience working with internal and external counsel and fluency with relevant technology and processes.

Collecting Current or Active Electronic Files

We are experienced in the collection of potential evidence from email files, hard drives, network servers, and other devices such as personal digital assistants and wire and wireless telephones. Our professionals have worked with major email applications, including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes Mail, and Netscape e-mail.

Our services include the collection of data from hard drives on laptop and desktop computers, removable media such as external USB drives and memory sticks, as well as network servers.  The collection procedures and technologies are designed to preserve the integrity of the collected data as well as the chain of custody.  With respect to network servers, we are experienced with extracting relevant user files from home drives, mapped drives, and shared file systems.  We also conduct analyses of enterprise application systems, such as human resources and accounting systems, to identify and extract potentially relevant data.