Whenever there is a legal case there is always a discovery period before it starts so that evidence can be gathered. E-discovery does exactly that, only it uses information taken from digital formats. This can be anything from e-mails to searching for data stored on Cloud servers. There are no boundaries to what they can extract as long as they get the necessary legal documents to allow them to get this information.
E-discovery is particularly interested in gathering information from many different communication mediums we use on a daily basis. This means e-mails, instant messaging, phone calls, and of course using social networking sites.
They have particularly been focusing their efforts on social networking sites as this has proven to be a very popular way for people to communicate with each other. It also means that they are important because sometimes incriminating information can be found very easily. Also websites like Facebook incorporate themselves into users' mobile phones so when they sign in their exact geographic position is recorded.
The latest of these networking sites that has drawn attention to e-discovery is twitter. This site is very good for communicating and a lot of demonstrations and rallies have been put together using this website. In fact just recently it has proven crucial in the United Kingdom when e-discovery played an important role using information from twitter to prosecute people who were involved in the recent 2011 London rioting.
It does not matter where you are in the world or what legal system you have e-discovery will be able to cross boundaries and gets the courts subpoenas it needs to gather information for defense or for prosecution.
Whenever there is discovery to be made, social networking sites are now a major consideration for e-discovery teams. They will include this in their research and check and individual Facebook or Twitter accounts to check if any incriminating evidence has been communicated through these mediums. This is extremely beneficial to both governments and individuals who are taking cases to court. In a lot of criminal cases they get caught because they have provided crucial evidence of assets and also communications that were related to a particular event. The reason is because many people cannot help but boast and brag about what they have done and also how many assets they have received from it.
E-discovery can make any case clear cut by gathering crucial evidence and putting it in a form that is submitted to a court. They have experienced members on their team that can extract information from all sorts of devices and servers. E-discovery is playing a crucial part in legal discovery and in the future will probably be used more and more in legal proceedings as the technology continues to progress.
This article was written by Bradley Morton, he is a law student interested in the legal discovery process and hoping to one day be an attorney. He believes that technology has the power to revolutionize legal proceedings, through things like electronic discovery.
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