eDiscovery
In today’s fast-paced digital world, managing and analyzing data effectively is essential for navigating legal, investigative, and regulatory challenges.
HKA leads the way delivering you end-to end support and precise, defensible, and actionable insights across the entire digital evidence lifecycle and the most complex data landscapes. From data collection and AI-driven review to expert testimony and strategic consulting, we work faster, smarter, and with unmatched clarity.
At the center of our practice is forensically sound data collection and deep file content analysis
We investigate across endpoints, enterprise systems, mobile devices, and cloud platforms to uncover the story behind the data; who accessed it, when, how, and why.
Working closely with our integrated Digital Forensics and Investigations service, we can help you uncover deleted files, unauthorized access, manipulation of documents, and suspicious communication patterns. Whether you’re responding to a breach, investigating misconduct, or preparing for litigation, we deliver defensible findings you can trust.
Our Approach
- Bit-for-bit forensic imaging (computers, phones, cloud)
- Encrypted and deleted file recovery
- Metadata extraction and timeline reconstruction
- File content comparisons and versioning analysis
- Communications mapping and behavioral analysis
- Proprietary format decoding (e.g., chat exports, database logs)
Using the advanced analytics capabilities of Nuix Neo Discover, we dive deep into communication content and document structure to reveal:
- Communication mapping to identify key actors and interaction frequency
- Sentiment analysis to detect tone, urgency, and shifts in language
- Conceptual conversation analysis to highlight emerging issues, decision moments, and risky language
- Thread reconstruction across emails, messages, and collaboration tools
- Keyword proximity and clustering for fast issue spotting in large datasets
When investigating trade secret misappropriation, IP theft, or suspicious production sets, our team uses near-duplicate analysis to:
- Identify reused or slightly altered proprietary content
- Surface unauthorized derivatives of confidential documents
- Highlight versions that may have been renamed, redacted, or reformatted to conceal origin
- Compare opposing productions or custodian collections for overlap and manipulation
- Bit-for-bit forensic imaging (computers, phones, cloud)
- Encrypted and deleted file recovery
- Metadata extraction and timeline reconstruction
- File content comparisons and versioning analysis
- Communications mapping and behavioral analysis
- Proprietary format decoding (e.g., chat exports, database logs)
Using the advanced analytics capabilities of Nuix Neo Discover, we dive deep into communication content and document structure to reveal:
- Communication mapping to identify key actors and interaction frequency
- Sentiment analysis to detect tone, urgency, and shifts in language
- Conceptual conversation analysis to highlight emerging issues, decision moments, and risky language
- Thread reconstruction across emails, messages, and collaboration tools
- Keyword proximity and clustering for fast issue spotting in large datasets
When investigating trade secret misappropriation, IP theft, or suspicious production sets, our team uses near-duplicate analysis to:
- Identify reused or slightly altered proprietary content
- Surface unauthorized derivatives of confidential documents
- Highlight versions that may have been renamed, redacted, or reformatted to conceal origin
- Compare opposing productions or custodian collections for overlap and manipulation
Core Capabilities
Defensible data collection
We ensure legally sound, forensically defensible collection of digital evidence across platforms.
AI-Powered review with Nuix Neo Discover
We combine intelligent automation with legal strategy to reduce costs, speed up timelines, and focus on what matters.
Proven continuous Active Learning (CAL) Methodology
Our team uses CAL to defensibly reduce the review population, eliminating irrelevant documents that may match keywords but are not actually relevant to the matter. The model is trained continuously using real-time reviewer input, improving accuracy with every decision. CAL allows us to:
- Prioritize the most relevant documents earlier in the review
- Reduce noise and false positives from keyword searches
- Shorten review timelines while increasing defensibility
- Provide transparent reporting and audit logs for court readiness
CognitiveAI-Powered privilege detection
To safeguard against inadvertent disclosure, we leverage CognitiveAI for advanced privilege identification. This intelligent model assesses context, communication patterns, legal phrases, and metadata cues to:
- Flag potentially privileged communications early in the review
- Reduce manual review burden for legal teams
- Improve accuracy beyond keywords
- Support privilege log creation with enriched metadata and justification
Industry-leading data processing
Nuix Neo Discover features one of the fastest and most accurate data processing engines in the industry. It enables:
- Rapid ingestion and indexing of large, complex datasets
- Seamless extraction of metadata, text, and embedded objects
- High-volume file normalization and exception handling
- Structured and unstructured data unification for downstream analysis
Advanced analytics and visualization
Concept clustering, keyword expansion, behavior modeling, our analytics illuminate hidden connections across large data sets.
Secure processing and hosting
We host data within a secure and scalable environment powered by Nuix’s industry-leading processing engine, ensuring:
- Accelerated ingestion and search
- Full-text indexing across dozens of file types
- Native and OCR content extraction
- Defensible logging of every action taken
Project management with precision
Seasoned project managers coordinate technical and legal teams to deliver results efficiently and transparently.
End-to-End Solutions
We can provide you with comprehensive digital services that span the entire investigative and litigation process:
- Digital evidence management
- Regulatory compliance audits
- Internal investigations
- Cybersecurity breach response
- IP theft and fraud investigations
- Risk analysis and crisis containment
No matter the complexity, our team adapts to meet the moment with discipline, discretion, and data clarity. If you need support, guidance, or a quick consultation, we’re just a click away.
