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Digital stuff is fast |
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As in DSL |
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Digital stuff is cheaper |
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As in CD-ROM |
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Digital stuff is accessible randomly |
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As in DVD |
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Digital stuff is easily modified |
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As in word-processing |
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Maricopa County Courthouse now has eight
electronic (digital) courtrooms open with more to come |
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New Federal Courthouses in both Phoenix and
Tucson will have Computer Integrated Courtrooms (CIC) |
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eCourts in all new courthouses |
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Retrofit in many existing courthouses |
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Leading the way to universal adoption of eCourt
technology |
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Cost has dropped dramatically in the last
two years |
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Digital Imaging and Presentation make the
presentation of evidence more efficient |
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Some courts are requiring all lawyers to
use digital imaging and
presentation |
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The natural extension of electronic office and
court filing |
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The rise of electronic discovery |
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Projected savings of 20% or more |
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Rapidly expanding supply of fiber, much of it
“dark fiber” |
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Rapidly expanding access to broadband networking |
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Internet2 will replace the current Internet infrastructure. This new
network will have a higher-bandwidth and speeds 1,000 times faster than
today's Internet. |
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Online Document Management |
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Document Repositories |
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Electronic Discovery |
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The process of reviewing computer generated
files. These files may have been created by computer applications such as
Word, WordPerfect, and Excel, or e-mail programs such as Outlook or Lotus
Notes |
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Application Files – computer files generated by
a software program. |
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Tiff Images – computer files that are in a
graphic (picture) format. |
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E-mails – messages that are in an e-mail program
such as Outlook or Lotus Notes.
These files are normally stored in large, unreadable database
format. |
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E-mail Attachments – application files or other
e-mail messages that are attached to an e-mail message. |
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Meta Data – the who, what, when, and where of a
file. Data that the computer stores
about the file such as date created, file location, last modified, etc. |
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Media Storage Device – Devices such as hard
drives, floppies, zip, Jaz, fire wire, and CD-Rom that stores computer
files and programs. |
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Backup devices and software – programs and
storage devices such as tapes or cartridges used to backup all computer
files for safekeeping. Normally you
must have the same software and backup drive to restore the information. |
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Data Mining – create an inventory of all files;
‘Meta Data’ information captured; file types are determined. |
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Documents are processed based upon known file
types. |
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Processed documents are printed or converted to
an image file, or both. |
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Error log is created for all unknown file types. |
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Meta Data can be exported |
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Searchable text can be exported |
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Image files can be numbered, branded, and all
necessary import files created |
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Deleted files may still exist on the hard drive
even though it is not visible from the operating system. |
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The original media device can be analyzed to
recover available deleted files for discovery purposes. |
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Not all deleted files can be recovered. Deleted files remain on the hard drive
until a new file occupies the deleted files space. Partial files may exist. |
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Blowbacks – files to paper. |
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Tiff Images – files converted to a graphic file. |
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PDF files – files converted to Adobe PDF format. |
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Meta data – extraneous information about the
file that can be imported into a database. |
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Searchable Text – all text from the application
file removed and can be imported into a full-text search database. |
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E-mail coding – information from the e-mail such
as to, from, subject, date, etc. can be imported into fields of a database. |
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Random Access to Video/Audio Record |
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Real-time Conversion to Text |
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Language Translation |
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Electronic Appellate Transcripts |
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Playback for jury |
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Daily video transcripts |
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Notes