How-to

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 the produced information. While helping a firm sort out a disastrous incoming production, I was inspired to write this post with the hope that it may help someone avoid an unnecessary dispute. Assuming that the e-Discovery processing leading to the production was performed competently, here are a few quick tips for preparing a proper image production.

A vast amount of electronic evidence is being transmitted everyday via electronic file transfers among corporations, law firms and e-Discovery service providers. Most of these transfers involve compressing the evidence into a file archive (ZIP, RAR, 7z etc.) and transferring the resultant archive(s) over the internet. While this is usually a straightforward process, it is critical to make the right decisions and use the right tools to avoid trouble down the road.