ZyLAB Announces Availability of New Legal Collection Solution

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced the availability of its new Legal Collection Module that enables organizations to minimize risk during an eDiscovery process and minimize disruptions to daily business operations with its non-invasive collection of data from workstations, laptops, servers, and removable storage devices. Most importantly, this module safeguards the integrity of the data and preserves its form.

“Although we already provided advanced collection tools for e-discovery, with this new solution we also offer a completely automated collection methodology which significantly reduces the impact on an organization’s technology resources”

The ZyLAB Legal Collection Module is typically used in-house to automatically collect potentially relevant electronic information which is intended to be processed, analyzed, reviewed and produced for outside or opposing counsel via ZyLAB’s e-Discovery and Production system. ZyLAB’s eDiscovery system is aligned with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), and this new module helps clients avoid costly and often irreparable errors that commonly occur during the identification, preservation and collection stages of eDiscovery. Also, the chain of custody is kept and metadata is collected and maintained.

As part of the end-to-end ZyLAB eDiscovery and Production system, the Legal Collection Module enables in-house legal departments to:

Reduce expenses for third-party service providers to collect Electronically Stored Information (ESI)
Take greater control over the processes used to identify ESI of potential interest
Leverage greater familiarity with the organization’s data, data sources, people who generate the data, people who work with the data, and so on
Conduct a narrower, more focused collection process
Follow a consistent process over multiple matters
Minimize disruption to custodians – the people whose ESI is of potential interest
Minimize disruption to the people who maintain the IT infrastructure
Lower collection costs
Reduce the likelihood of over-collection and accidental or intentional spoliation.

“Although we already provided advanced collection tools for e-discovery, with this new solution we also offer a completely automated collection methodology which significantly reduces the impact on an organization’s technology resources,” said Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer for ZyLAB. “Our Legal Collection Module automatically copies potentially relevant ESI from every device within an enterprise to a litigation hold server, creates a chain of custody, and then filters files by various criteria to reduce the irrelevant data submitted for processing.”

Extensive audit trail and reporting is provided including: status of collection per matter per custodian; status of collection custodian per matter; report per matter per custodian on file types collected; report per custodian on file types collected; total amount of data collected; total data by location or Custodian or by location per custodian; and total data not copied, list of files not copied, and why the documents were not copied. The reports and audit trail can be used to analyze the collection and hence better manage the associated costs and risks of eDiscovery while preparing their organizations for the litigation process.

About ZyLAB

For 25 years, ZyLAB has provided commercial and government organizations around the world with award-winning information access solutions. The ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform is a complete XML-based system that provides a secure foundation for the long-term archiving, management and retrieval of information, from digitized paper documents, to electronic files, to e-mail and attachments, to multimedia.

With over 9,000 installations and 650,000 users worldwide, ZyLAB has a wealth of experience and knowledge across a variety of industries and business applications. Federal clients include the Executive Office of the President and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Justice and Defense, as well as all branches of the US Armed Forces and investigative teams at the FBI, SEC, and Amtrak’s OIG. Hundreds of state and local governments also rely on ZyLAB, such as The State of California, Montgomery County, Maryland, and The Town of Jackson, Wyoming. ZyLAB’s numerous commercial clients include leading companies like American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Dominion Virginia Power, Lockheed Martin, Pacific Life, and Shell Oil. For more information visit: www.zylab.com.