Why can’t my law firm or I do offer this service for our clients?
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There are three reasons why you, as a law firm, would not want to offer this service for your client. The first reason has to do with client confidential information. In the course of searching a hard drive, an analyst may come across information that is considered client confidential. At Vestige, we always give the producing party the information we find first in order to let them redact any client confidential information. Second, being your client’s attorney, you have a vested interest in finding anything to support your client’s case. That could open the door for challenges from the opposing side that you were not examining the data with a clear conscious, especially if you are working on contingency. While Vestige is hired by you, we do not work on contingency and our reputation is based on giving an unbiased report on what we find on the computer. We have a vested interest to do a thorough job and not let anything cloud our report.