Sullivan|Strickler Announces New Service, MEAD, for Litigators & Investigators
Sullivan|Strickler announces MEAD – its new service to address the needs of litigators and investigators to quickly examine message threads with timelines and key metadata clearly and cleanly presented. MEAD provides a better way to preserve and review message conversations extracted from Apple and Android mobile devices.
The ability to preserve and present what is important in an easy to visualize layout has become increasingly valuable amidst the explosion in different message formats that can be employed on smartphones. With other solutions, detailed metadata often surrounds and clutters message presentation. Collections can be imported to common review platforms for further redaction/coding functionality as required.
Key features of MEAD include:
- A clear graphical timeline presentation of communications including color emojis & attachments.
- A closer representation of how a native communication thread appears on the phone. Additional critical metadata not previously seen on other message reports. This includes “not sent” and “unread”. These unusual metadata fields are printed outside the message bubble in a highly noticeable red font.
- Multiple message platform compatibility:
- SMS, MMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Instagram and more
- Complete removal of extraneous metadata that confuses the communication thread review.
- Integrates with top review platforms: RelOne, csDISCO, Reveal and others.
- Conversational grouping by targeted (or all) parties across all or specific date ranges.
- Full conversation threads. Each conversation can be presented as a single file, i.e. contains all messages from the initial one through to the final message in the conversation.
- 24-hour conversation threads. Each conversation can be presented as a series of individual files where each one contains all messages in a 24-hour timeframe. This gives the reviewer a finer granularity of production options.
A cleaner conversation — making review fast & easy.
