Did you know?

• That just asking for a native production in a meet-and-confer is the equivalent of opening up a can of digital worms?

• That Microsoft Outlook MSG files retain their attachments after processing, thus increasing the size of data you need to store on disk?

• That Microsoft XLS documents will print thousands and thousands of blank pages if your software doesn’t detect and remove them?

• That Microsoft Exchange (.edb) databases can be easily opened by a variety of software products?

• That you should use the newest version of Winzip to compress your files, because Winzip will automatically preserve file-level dates/times?

• That Microsoft Outlook doesn’t actually compress data, so how can it possibly expand after processing?

• That collecting images from virtual machines can be much faster and easier than collecting an image from a non-virtual machine with the use of virtual machines snapshot features?

• That copying 5GB of tiny files is much slower than copying 1 large 5GB file?

• That Microsoft PPT files have hidden speaker notes that, if not extracted during processing, will not be searchable?

• That you could probably save your clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in eDiscovery costs by hosting the documents within your own firm?

• That page-counts represent the amount of content needed to review and without that information, your document review projects will be skewed?

• That your law firms’s litigation support department, if you have one, can add tremendous value (most likely) to your case if brought to the table at the beginning of discovery?

• That Adobe Photoshop files contain multiple layers of information, most of which are hidden from view and cannot be seen without the use of Photoshop?

• That you can use a mapped drive letter (e.g. X:\) to gain access to a Windows file that has accidentally gone over the 256 character limit?

• That Japanese documents can come in 1 of 3 different character sets?