From appointment through court reporting.
E-Hounds has served as the forensic and eDiscovery vendor on major receivership matters in the Middle District of Florida, including SEC, CFTC, and FTC-initiated cases and state-court assignments for the benefit of creditors.
Our engagements have included multi-year matters with quarterly court-approved billing, hosted review for multiple parties, and preservation following asset freezes. We understand the reporting obligations, fee applications, and need for detailed, auditable billing within a constrained estate.
Preserve the estate's records and make them usable.
Forensic preservation and acquisition
Acquisition from enterprise servers, workstations, laptops, mobile devices, and cloud accounts, on-site or remotely as appropriate. Chain of custody is documented for court use.
Email and cloud collection
Gmail, Google Vault, Microsoft 365, Exchange, and legacy platforms, from a few custodians to enterprise-wide collections. Material is prepared in formats suitable for attorney review.
Server retrieval and custody
Our work has included locating and preserving servers held in commercial storage for years, assessing the available records, and imaging them before return to the estate for sale, disposition, or further review.
Hosted eDiscovery
In-house iConect review for receiver's counsel, enforcement teams, and co-counsel. We have hosted isolated environments allowing SEC enforcement and a receiver's team to review the same underlying records independently.
Expert testimony and filings
Declarations, technical affidavits, testimony, and assistance with technical content in court submissions.
Fraud forensics
Communications analysis, keyword searches, trading-record review, and structured exports for counsel and agency review in investment fraud, Ponzi, and financial-crime matters.
Patient records in healthcare insolvencies.
We have worked with assignees to preserve and facilitate access to patient records, including sudden closures involving hundreds of thousands of files. Our on-premise review environment supports this work without placing the hosted patient records with a public-cloud provider.
Familiar with the court's requirements.
Based in Palm Harbor, E-Hounds works with the Middle District of Florida receiver community and handles matters across the Eastern Seaboard. We work with counsel to define scope, address court deadlines, and prepare work product and billing documentation suitable for filings and fee applications.
E-Hounds has served the legal community since 1998.
Scoping the engagement.
Describe the estate, the business systems involved, the appointment or freeze, and immediate preservation needs. Include known data locations and the parties who will need access for review.