Processing Services

Modus Processing Services

Whether you are a law firm, corporation or government entity, the burden of eDiscovery is ever present. Increased regulatory pressures are forcing legal teams like yours to speed up their litigation preparedness, while business circumstances are demanding lower enterprise costs. We have long believed that technology should be designed to accommodate the regularly changing landscape of the litigation industry.

Modus offers two processing methods:

  1. Native Processing for native files, metadata and text with appropriate load files
  2. Image Processing for native files, metadata and text with appropriate load files and images

Modus processes data from various sources:

  • Windows
  • Apple
  • Lotus Notes
  • Linux
  • Unix
  • Mobile Phones
  • 3rd party Data
  • Many other Devices

Specific areas Modus specializes in:

  • Consultation – Expert advice on best practices and procedures for your project.
  • Service – Available throughout the process, day or night.
  • Consistency – Adherence to repeatable procedures.
  • Speed – We leverage our distributed workers to scale for processing speed.
  • Complex data manipulation – Experienced technicians manipulate complex datasets regularly.
  • Complex data deliverable – No matter what the request, we will deliver to client-specifications.
  • Data Analysis – We view and interpret data in ways other professionals cannot, thinking through problems and analyzing data… in a way you can understand.
  • Analytics – Providing comprehensive and interactive reporting on data and for procedures performed.
  • File Type/File Category Filtering – Utilizing file header information to group documents based on their likely content.
  • Metadata Extraction - Our extraction process makes available all metadata, including any hidden within each file. All metadata is completely unaltered, so that the evidentiary integrity of the information cannot be called into question.
  • Catching Duplicates – Global tagging of duplicates across multiple systems and repositories. Low footprint place-holding of tagged duplicates; flexible deduplication business logic.
  • Near Duplication – Using specific algorithms, percentages are generated with clusters of like-documents and identified.
  • Search-Based Filtering – We will validate and refine your search terms to return an accurately filtered dataset for eDiscovery processing.
  • Foreign Language – We can process in any language, including languages that utilize multi-layered character sets. We identify and rank all the different languages in a document and provide reporting so your team can best organize a review team around a target core of the documents.
  • Quality Control - We utilize a comprehensive 8 step QC procedure. Everything from data intake, through processing, QC, export, and pre-delivery are quality checked and reported on.
  • Formatting - Our powerful spreadsheet and database processing is customizable and versatile. We can automate, customize, or otherwise get your spreadsheets and database to look exactly as you think they should.
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Why Use Modus for your Processing?

  • Incorporating best practices in planning, design and implementation for all your processing requirements.
  • We use powerful, distributed and multi-threaded software to process your largest project with speed and scalability.
  • Modus technicians provide unmatched expertise in data manipulation services.
  • All discovered data is indexed and hashed, so more processing jobs can be run against the same dataset without the risk of re-Discovery.
  • We always plan for the unexpected.
  • Quality Control at each stage of processing. No item of work may proceed to the next phase of the processing pipeline without first passing our quality control checklist. Consistency does not happen by chance

Standard Deliverables

  • Native documents with metadata fields and extracted text
  • Client-specific image formats such as Tiff, JPG, PDF
  • PDFs may be searchable or non-searchable
  • Tiffs may be single or multi-page
  • Near Duplicate and Email Thread overlays as required
  • Client-specific load file format such as Summation, Relativity, Concordance
  • Optional branding and OCR

Need a better path for your eDiscovery process?

Whether you are a law firm, corporation or government entity, the burden of eDiscovery is ever present. Increased regulatory pressures are forcing legal teams like yours to speed up their litigation preparedness, while business circumstances are demanding lower enterprise costs. We have long believed that technology should be designed to accommodate the regularly changing landscape of the litigation industry.

A project can be successful only if there is a well-executed design that is managed knowledgeably and accurately. To that end, we concentrate on listening to what you are asking for and in delivering the solution. We are used to, and are adept at quickly responding to your needs and presenting innovative solutions every day.