Litigation in the Information Age is demanding more from outside counsel, in-house counsel and corporate department heads alike in terms of the foresight and precision needed to handle electronically stored data. The economic impact of mishandling this data is simply too significant to take a wait-and-see attitude. Because the case law interpreting e-discovery obligations is still in its formative stages, predictability in the courtroom may still be a long way off. Let The Cipher Group, LLC give you and your clients the best chance of navigating this environment so you can both concentrate on the business at hand.
The Cipher Group, LLC is an electronic discovery and forensic data recovery consulting firm. The firm was started by an attorney with eleven years experience in complex commercial litigation and a former British police officer with twelve years experience in computer forensics and trial presentation. We at The Cipher Group, LLC believe our combined practical experience as litigators, investigators and trial-tested computer experts allows us to take an integrated approach to our clients’ needs that directly translates into reliable and cost-effective results.
Bringing Experience and Know-How to Every Aspect of the Project is Our Edge
By now, there are any number of "e-discovery" companies that can image a hard drive, run basic Boolean word searches using the search terms supplied, and then dump the extracted data into a Summation or Concordance litigation support database for your review. Many of these companies are of two varieties. First, there is the former copy-shop variety. Yesterday they were making hard copy documents and doing some electronic format conversion. Today they've bought a user-friendly e-discovery processing application and now they are supposedly experts. Another variety is the private investigation firm looking to capitalize on its in-house investigative computer expertise. However, this provider rarely has the litigation background to understand, let alone anticipate, the impact procedural or substantive legal issues may have on how the data is to be analyzed and managed.
The Cipher Group, on the other hand, has both the litigation and computer forensic knowledge and experience to see the whole e-discovery picture. Our technological knowledge base is deep, drawing on personnel who have been players in this industry at a time when Summation was just coming on line and when only members of the FBI or the Dept. of Defense were obtaining similar computer forensics training. We have the ability to create databases that do more than just house data for review - we build databases that help analyze data across the widest and/or most precise set of terms and concepts that will cause the documents to "speak" to you. We know the questions you need to be asking either your client or your opponent because we know the range of potential issues that can arise when computer data becomes the object of litigation or formal investigation. We have the edge. Let us give it to you.