Course Description

This hands-on course addresses the rapidly increasing need for eDiscovery in the corporate arena. Today’s business litigation almost always involves some form of electronic evidence discovery. In many cases, email, documents, or other digital files are the clearest forms of evidence. This course provides instruction on using OpenText Information Assurance to efficiently gather and process electronic data.

At the end of this course, attendees will receive a link with various course resources, including but not limited to example conditions and criteria, as well as other sources of information to use within an eDiscovery matter.

Delivery method: Group-Live. NASBA defined level: advanced.

CPE Credits - 32

This course provides in-depth instruction on the eDiscovery process. Students attending this course will learn the following:

• How the OpenText Information Assurance solution enables a process that scales from addressing small to enterprise-wide discovery
• The differences between digital forensics and eDiscovery processes and how the eDiscovery process has evolved
• The various protocols that are used to plan and prepare for an effective, comprehensive eDiscovery procedure
• How to identify, observe, and create custodians, sources, and targets during an eDiscovery process and collection using the tools included in OpenText Information Assurance
• How to import and create criteria, conditions, and jobs to conduct pre-collection analytics and the collection of ESI (electronic sources of information)
• How to organize and import ESI in the form of:
  • Full-disk images
  • Logical evidence files (LEFs) of various data, including PSTs
  • RAW PST files
• How to process the ESI by:
  • Creating conditions and criteria to process, manage, and collect desired data
  • oCrafting search expressions, including but not limited to keyword searches and hash value queries
  • Separating responsive files from non-responsive files
  • Bifurcating or separating email-related files from regular files
  • Creating a workflow to bifurcate email and files, dedupe files and email, and produce responsive email and files
• Students will use results of processing tasks to create output files, known as “deliverables,” for review
• •How to use results of processing tasks to create output files, known as “deliverables,” for review
• How to create and produce various reports describing collection and processing methodology and presenting the collected data

Course Syllabus

Prerequisites

This course focuses specifically on the use of OpenText™ Information Assurance software (previously called EnCase eDiscovery). The class is only relevant to individuals who own this solution or are seriously considering purchasing it.