Tools for host-based electronic-discovery

[Mike Lococo <mike.lococo () NYU EDU>]

Hi Folks,

I'm interested to know if anyone would be willing to provide information
about the toolset they're using to perform electronic discovery.  I'm
particularly interested in host-based scanning tools to find files and
emails that are responsive to a given series of search terms, and
provide results in a format that is palatable to lawyer-types.

It's tempting to try to use Spider with custom-regexes, but I'm a little
afraid that trying to archive results in a sane format is going to get
messy very quickly, especially with multiple-record files like
Eudora/Tbird email folders.

Before folks send me back to the drawing board on policy and
organizational issues related to eDiscovery, I am more or less aware of
the range of best-practices currently available to cope with those
issues and have reviewed the content at the Educuase E-Discovery
resources page:

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/ESIandEDiscovery/32756

I'm primarily interested in augmenting our already functional framework
for handling electronic discovery with a toolset that allows us to
execute discovery projects more efficiently, and am focusing on
host-based discovery as an area likely to have a high effort-to-payoff
ratio.

Thanks,
Mike Lococo

PS - If you'd rather share off-list, email me directly and I'll
summarize the results.