doelegal has assembled the following resources to assist in-house counsel and law firms to keep up-to-date on the ever changing law process. Here you will find everything from court rulings, case summaries, and white papers to industrial news.
Access - data access is having permission to use specific data on a computer while web access is a connection to the internet.
Admissible - evidence that is acceptable or allowable in court
Archive - a long-term computer storage area
Attachments - any file type associated with or attached to an e-mail
Backup - copying data to media for storage or retrieval
Blogs - a web journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Topics often include brief philosophical musings, commentary on Internet and other social issues, and links to other sites the author favors.
Browser - a browser is an application program that provides a means to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.
Case Management - case management (matter management) provides a convenient method of tracking all client and case information.
Chain-of-custody - ensures that the data presented is "as originally acquired" and has not been altered prior to admission into evidence.
Connectivity - the ability to communicate with a computer or computer system. Hosting is another term associated with connectivity.
Data extraction - the process of removing files and meta-data from backup tapes
Deleted files and data - recoverable information from deleted files and data may be stored in unallocated or slack space on a computer hard drive.
De-duplication - the process of providing one copy of an item when there are multiple copies. This process involves placing all files into a database before searching for and deleting the duplicated files.
Discovery - a pre-trial process in which each party tries to find all the information held by the other party and by certain third parties that is relevant, probative and can be admitted into evidence at trial.
Document Management - integrated document management software allows workgroups to efficiently manage the storage, retrieval and distribution of documents to team.
DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) - is a technology for bringing high-bandwidth information to homes and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines. A DSL line can carry both data and voice signals. Typically, individual connections will provide from 1.544 Mbps to 512 Kbps downstream and about 128 Kbps upstream.
Electronic evidence - are documents created electronically and legally presented at the trial of an issue. Electronic information, such as e-mail, word processing documents, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, and scanned documents, generally is admissible into evidence in a legal proceeding.
E-mail - the whole of an electronic document containing the message envelope and message content (attachment, etc.)
Extranet - an extranet is a private network that uses the Internet protocol and the public telecommunication system to securely share part of a business's information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers, or other businesses. An extranet can be viewed as part of a company's intranet that is extended to users outside the company.
Filtering - removes files that don't fit the search criteria and reduces the volume of data that requires investigation.
Firewall - is a program that prevents unauthorized outsiders from accessing your data resources and for controlling what outside resources your own users have access to.
Forensically sound procedures – are procedures used for acquiring electronic information in a manner that ensures it is "as originally discovered" and it is reliable enough to be admitted into evidence. Such procedures are defined in part by the US Department of Justice publication "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations".
Gigahertz - is used as a unit of measure for the “clock speed†of computer microprocessor. The microprocessor speed is the potential speed or amount of data that can come into the computer from I/O devices in order to optimize overall computer performance.
Hard Drive - is a data-storage device that furnishes a large amount of data storage for the PC.
Hardware - hardware is a collective term that includes not only the computer proper but also the cables, connectors, power supply units, and peripheral devices.
Hash - an algorithm that creates a value to verify duplicate electronic documents. A hash mark serves as a digital thumbprint.
Hosting - is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining data files for one or more companies to share a fast Internet connection for collaboration.
Images - a bit-by-bit duplicate of a backup tape or hard drive that is forensically sound
Internal inquiries - a close examination of a matter in a search for information or truth that is internal to a company.
Intranet - an intranet is a private network that is contained within an enterprise. The main purpose of an intranet is to share company information and computing resources among employees.
Internet - is a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer. The Internet is a public, cooperative, and self-sustaining facility accessible to people worldwide.
Investigation - an inquiry initiated by a government agency
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) - is a set of standards for high speed digital image transmission over ordinary telephone copper wire as well as over other media.
ISP (Internet Service Provider) - is a company that provides access to the Internet and other related services such as Web site building and virtual hosting.
Listserv - listserv is a small program that automatically redistributes e-mail to names on a mailing list.
Litigation Management - the electronic organization of evidence in case folders.
Matter Management - matter management (case management) provides a convenient electronic method of tracking all client and case information.
Media - the physical material used to store electronic data. Media includes hard drives, backup tapes, computer disks, CD, DVD, PDA, memory, etc.
Media conversation - moving data from one type of media to another such as tape to CD
Megahertz - is used as a unit of measure for the "clock speed" of computer microprocessor. The microprocessor speed is the potential speed or amount of data that can come into the computer from I/O devices in order to optimize overall computer performance.
Merge - the process of combining various e-mail files (i.e. Microsoft Outlook's .pst) into one file for de-duplication purposes
Meta-data - is a definition or description of data that captures data elements or attributes (name, size, type, etc.), data about records or data structures (length, fields, columns, etc.) and data about data (where it is located, how it is associated, ownership, etc.).
Native environment - the original configuration (software, password, server configuration, etc.) of a backup tape or e-mail system (i.e. Microsoft Exchange).
Native file - a file saved in a format of the original application used to create the file.
Network - a network is a series of points or nodes interconnected with other networks and sub networks. Networks can be characterized in terms of spatial distance as local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN), and wide area networks (WAN).
Obstruction of Justice - obstruction of justice means impeding or obstructing those who seek justice in a court, or those who have duties or powers of administering justice therein.
Office Suites - a suite of productivity software that helps complete common business tasks, including word processing, e-mail, presentations, data management and analysis.
PDF (Portable Document Format) - a proprietary format of Adobe Corporation that has become the de facto standard for transmitting documents that the sender does not want to be altered and for transmitting document to commercial printers and to the web for online publishing.
Practice Management - a fully integrated office management system that includes time, billing and case management shared and synchronized client information, user information, user security, codes, fees, and costs.
Production - delivery of data or information in response to interrogatory, subpoena or discovery order or a similar legal process.
Repository - a centralized database stored on a computer that houses specific information.
Searching - the ability to look within the data and search by a name, date or keyword to find desired information.
Server – is a computer program that provides services to other programs in the same or other computers. The computer that a server program runs in is also frequently referred to as a server.
Slack space - remnant data from deleted files still located in clusters on a hard drive.
Speed - the rate of performance or action that a component of a computer system or the system processes information.
Spoliation - generally, the intentional or negligent destruction or alteration of evidence when there is current litigation or an investigation or there is reasonable anticipation that either may happen in the near future. Some jurisdictions also define it as a failure to preserve information that may become evidence.
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) - a widely used bit-mapped graphics file format. This is essentially a picture of a document.
Time Management - a comprehensive solution for managing and sharing group and personal calendars to gain better control over scheduling and resource utilization.
Unallocated space - space on a hard drive that potentially contains intact files, remnants of files, subdirectories or temporary files which were created and then deleted by either a computer application, the operating system or the operator.
Unstructured data - data that is not in tabular or delimited format. File types include word processing files, html files (web pages), project plans, presentation files, spreadsheets, graphics, audio files, video files and e-mails.
Web Server - is the computer program that serves requested HTML pages or files. The Web browser in your computer is a client that requests HTML files from the Web servers.
Wireless - is a term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves (rather than wire) carry the signal over the communication path.
