Ledjit Consulting and Guidance Software Team to Provide Defensible, Repeatable and Cost-Effective e-discovery Capability

Ledjit Standardizes on Guidance Software’s Leading EnCase® e-discovery Software Solution for ESI Preservation, Collection and Processing

Montreal, Canada and Pasadena, USA, Aug 10, 2009 — Ledjit Consulting, the leading firm Bridging the Gap between IT and the Law™, and Guidance Software (NASDAQ: GUID), The World Leader in Digital Investigations™, today announced a strategic alliance to bring cutting-edge e-discovery solutions to Ledjit’s clients worldwide. This innovative alliance combines Ledjit’s expertise in e-discovery – including legal and technical oversight to preserve, collect, process, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI) – with Guidance Software’s industry‑leading EnCase® e-discovery software solution, which enables companies to search, identify, collect, preserve and process ESI from servers, laptops and work stations across a global network from a central location.

“This alliance is a further example of how Ledjit strives to provide cutting-edge tools to its clients with a defensible and repeatable e-discovery process that also reduces the ever increasing cost and burden of e-discovery,” said Dominic Jaar, Ledjit’s president. Adding, “Ledjit’s clients rely on us to provide timely and effective advice, strategy and support through the process of e-discovery to ensure a winning, defensible and cost-effective solution.”

“Ledjit’s team of legal and technical experts helps its clients overcome the hurdles of e-discovery by using the very best technologies available on the market at a reasonable cost. Today’s alliance will allow our clients to benefit from our professionalism and Guidance Software’s innovative software while enabling us to remain at the top of the list of solution providers for corporations and law firms with e-discovery needs” stressed Phil Senecal, one of Ledjit’s partners.

Guidance Software’s Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Patrick Zeller said: “We are proud to form this exclusive strategic alliance with Canada’s premier e-discovery firm. Our organizations have a shared vision to help organizations reduce risk and lower the cost of e-discovery by bringing this capability in house.”

EnCase e-discovery is the leading e-discovery solution for the search, collection, preservation, and processing of electronically stored information (ESI). It performs automated search, collection, and preservation of ESI residing in unstructured and semi-structured data stores such as: desktops, laptops, file servers, email servers, content management systems, and removable storage media, all without any business disruption.  Additionally, it offers optional litigation hold notification and tracking functionality, and its extensive processing capabilities enable post-collection culling and deduplication of data, as well as load file creation for the most popular attorney review platforms, allowing customers to drastically cut processing costs. (more…)