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In the United States and Asia, UBIC provides one-stop solution service, with experience of handling more than 150 cases, for evidence preservation, analysis, document review, production. Our solutions prevent unnecessary disclosure of information outside the regions, as all evidence information can be analyzed and extracted locally first. In addition to English, evidence discovery can be performed on correspondence done in Asian languages as well.

Important notification on document disclosure policy in the United States for non-US customers

This document points out the risk of enterprise information being taken out of region for eDiscovery process:
'The United States Federal court approves law firms’ request for disclosure of documents to non-US customers. ' ( December 10, 2010)

This document is reprinted with permission from the office of Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, a registered foreign lawyer.

Preservation ・ Collection ・ Extraction

In civil lawsuits, the plaintiff and the defendant disclose evidence before commencement of the trial. As per Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)) in the United States, disclosure of electronic evidence in electronic format through "eDiscovery" has been mandated, in the background that currently, more than 90% of enterprise information is stored in electronic format. UBIC’s highly regarded eDiscovery support service ensures secure and effective information disclosure. UBIC additionally offers Paper Discovery and document review service of paper based evidence, taking special precautions to avoid loss of information in the process of digitizing the data.

Hosting ・ Inspection ・ Submission

UBIC’s online review system makes it possible for corporate and outside counsel to review electronic (and paper) evidence.
Asian language support helps handle litigation which involves at least one Asian company. This is an unique advantage that other vendors cannot match. UBIC’s eDiscovery system ensures that only necessary information is disclosed through a disclosure approval process undertaken by assigned lawyers.
The inherent risk of information leakage in an eDiscovery process is a cause of worry for corporates. If UBIC Discovery services area availed of, only those files identified as containing evidence are hosted to the inspection servers, the rest of the information always securely stored in UBIC labs ensuring safety of critical data.

Paper Discovery

Though typically more than 90% of enterprise data is available in electronic formats, the volume of paper documents could also be significant. UBIC performs paper based evidence discovery by scanning and subsequently digitizing the documents, utilizing Optical Character Recognition techniques. Special care is taken to avoid loss of evidence information loss. Once available in digital formats, the techniques followed for analysis of these documents follows identical methods employed for digital documents.

UBIC has significant experience in employing computer forensics techniques to perform in depth investigation of corporate fraud and information leakage. UBIC’s achievements include more than 150 instances of cross border legal assistance, and more than 500 instances of completing corporate internal investigations. UBIC understands the use of information technology in litigation and provides extensive training programs in IT relevant to the legal industry. UBIC’s forensics training programs have been attended by more than 500 participants from both public and private sector companies.

UBIC can deploy field analysis engineers to customer sites to work on Enterprise Information Assets to prepare electronic evidence.

For more information on available services and to know more about UBIC’s experience and offerings, please contact UBIC.