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LLitigation Support Specialists

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1997 – plaintiff in a civil construction

claim > 7 month trial

1998 – Searchlight founded

litigation support services & software

matter management & time recording

About SearchlightAbout Searchlight

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Corporate StructureCorporate Structure

TriumphCase

Management

Searchlight Evidence Solutions

( software development & support )

( serving law firms & corporations )

( serving public sector )

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Vancouver, BC

Seattle, WA Toronto, ON

Global ReachGlobal Reach

London, UK

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Evidence ManagementEvidence Management

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eCase

eCourt eFiles Imaging

OCR

Coding

Electronic Discovery

Document Hosting

Trial Support

Project Management

Computer Forensics

Searchlight Searchlight ServicesServices

Searchlight Searchlight SoftwareSoftware

Technically IndependentTechnically Independent

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Data SizesData Sizes

100 Megabytes

1CD = 625 Megabytes

X 60

2,500 pages

16,000 pages

1 million pages

50 GB hard drive

X 10

10 km 1 Terabyte20 million pages

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EnCaseEnCase® F® ForensicorensicAcquire data as evidence with the leading court-validated solution on the market

Industry standard

Acquire data in a forensically sound manner

Investigate & Analyze multiple platforms

Find hidden, deleted and cloaked information

Easily manage large volumes of evidence

Certified technicians

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Process & OutcomeProcess & OutcomeCollect data

Set aside system files (NSRL)

Extract container files (.pst)

Extract attachments

Identify file types

Extract text

Extract metadata

Identify duplicates

Cull by key words

Produce tiff

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Example #1Example #1

West Jet vs. Air Canada

Corporate espionage lawsuit

7 terabytes of emails stored on server back-up tapes

Processed and reviewed for privilege and relevance in 6 weeks

Result > favorable settlement

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Example #2Example #2

Knowledge House Inc.

Court Order

Examination of contentious e-mails

RCMP seized computers and provided EnCase files

Process & prepared custodial databases

Enabled on-line review of 186,000 emails using

Searchlight ™ eCASE by the RCMP and Supreme Court

Justice Ted Scanlan

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Example #3Example #3

Lenczner Slaght

Corporate civil action

Forensic data capture using EnCase – 15 PC’s & laptops

Process and reduce to an approximately 14,000 documents

> an iterative process refining search criteria

Culled set loaded into Summation for review

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RecognitionRecognition

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Project ManagementProject ManagementAssign Project Manager

Meet

Identify Deliverables

Prepare Timetable

Assign Team

Process & QA

Report progress-to-date

Follow-up

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Noteworthy ClientsNoteworthy Clients

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The right credentials

The right results

The right choice