Map the Sources
Identify custodians, devices, workspaces, accounts, administrators, retention settings, and third-party systems before collection begins.
Electronic Discovery
Discovery Work Built Around the Evidence, Not the Export
ESI problems usually appear practical before they become legal: a custodian was missed, metadata was stripped, a chat export lost context, or a production format made review harder than it needed to be. PowellPath helps attorneys identify those problems early and handle the data in a way that can be explained later.
The work covers preservation, collection, processing, review support, privilege workflows, production preparation, and ESI protocol support. The goal is a discovery record that is usable, defensible, and clear enough for counsel to rely on in negotiation, motion practice, or trial preparation.
Focused Services
Electronic Discovery Services
Discovery problems usually turn on a specific failure point: preservation, collection, processing, privilege, production format, or protocol language. The links below separate those tasks so counsel can get to the part of the record that needs technical attention.
- ESI Preservation and Litigation Holds Preserve electronically stored information before routine deletion, syncing, or user activity changes the evidentiary record.
- Custodian Interviews and Data Mapping Find the people, systems, accounts, and device locations that are likely to hold the evidence before collection begins.
- Email, Cloud, and Workspace Collection Collect evidence from email, cloud drives, and business workspaces while preserving context and metadata.
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace Collection Collect litigation data from Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace accounts with attention to scope, metadata, and permissions.
- Slack, Teams, and Chat-Platform Collection Preserve and collect workplace chat records without losing thread context, attachments, reactions, or channel history.
- Data Processing, Deduplication, and Filtering Reduce review volume while keeping defensible records of what was processed, filtered, and excluded.
- Data Review and Analysis Review large document, email, chat, and file sets for relevance, privilege, chronology, and case themes.
- Privilege Review Workflow Support Support privilege review with names, domains, search logic, workflow design, and quality-control checks.
- Production Preparation, Bates Numbering, and Load Files Prepare productions in usable formats with Bates numbers, metadata fields, confidentiality labels, and load files.
- ESI Protocol and Meet-and-Confer Support Help attorneys negotiate discovery scope, formats, search methods, preservation issues, and production mechanics.
Process
How the Discovery Record Is Controlled
The strongest discovery work leaves a record of what was searched, what was collected, what was excluded, and why. That record matters when questions arise about completeness, burden, privilege, or production defects.
Preserve the Record
Document preservation steps, collection scope, export settings, exceptions, and chain-of-custody details so the work can be defended.
Prepare for Use
Process, filter, deduplicate, review, and produce data in forms that attorneys can search, cite, exchange, and explain.
Matter Support
Bring the ESI Issues Into Focus Early
When the data is large, incomplete, or technically disputed, counsel should not have to guess what is missing or how to ask for it.