Ledjit Consulting, the Canadian firm offering eDiscovery, information management and IT litigation, and Guidance Software, a provider of digital investigative products, have signed a strategic alliance to unveil eDiscovery products to Ledjit’s clients worldwide.

This alliance reportedly combines Ledjit’s experience in eDiscovery – including legal and technical oversight to preserve, collect, process, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI) – with Guidance’s EnCase eDiscovery software product, which is said to enable companies to search, identify, collect, preserve and process ESI from servers, laptops and work stations across a global network from a central location.

EnCase eDiscovery is an eDiscovery product 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,the company stated.

Additionally, it offers optional litigation hold notification and tracking functionality, and its processing capabilities enable post-collection culling and deduplication of data, as well as load file creation for the attorney review platforms, allowing customers to cut processing costs, the company further stated.

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