Email & Outlook PST e-Discovery
Convert to PDF or MSG for Review

Lexbe offers a comprehensive service to help com[anies, litigators and staff find responsive emails from Outlook PST and OST files, in connection with e-Discovery requests and related analysis. Below you can find details on this service, including why it is needed, steps to get email processed, and pricing. If you have any questions, feel free to call (800-401-7809 x22) or email us at   

Need for Email Processing in e-Discovery

Email has become the most important source of evidence in litigation, and is the primary reason for the rapid growth of e-Discovery.  Case outcomes increasingly turn on the contemporaneous statements and admissions that are so often expressed and recorded in email.  The new e-discovery rule amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and similar state rules make e-Discovery of email increasingly common in federal and state cases.  Plus attorneys are increasingly requesting and judges and magistrates are increasingly allowing discovery requests to require production of email in native file format.

But email discovery can be particularly difficult to prepare for production and analysis, as emails are usually found natively in compound Outlook PST and OST files that hold email, attachments and metadata.  With these files it can be difficult to search, analyze and separate the potentially relevant email from the non-responsive.

To address this problem, Lexbe Digitization has developed a stand-alone litigation support service that takes your Outlook PST or OST files, Outlook Express DBX files, and convert to PDF or MSG files, which are easier to search and review.  We specialize in litigation support, so our services are designed for the exacting requirements of the legal market.  Best of all, we offer 'per GB' pricing, so you know what your job will cost before you order!

Getting Started

Send us PST or OST file collections. You send us entire PST and OST files that you wish for us to process.  You can FedEx CDs, DVDs or portable drives to us.  Or upload the files directly to our secure FTP server for quicker service.  

We Convert to PDF or MSG files.  We convert the PST files, at your option, to PDF or MSG formats.  In each case, attachemtns are retained and included within each email as an embedded attachment.

Online Review and Search Capability.  We include, at your option and without further charge, upload of responsive emails to our fully-featured review litigation review and analysis application, Lexbe Online.  If you have an existing case already set up on Lexbe Online, we can add the potentially responsive emails to your case.  If you are not an existing client, we provide free access for email review for thirty days.  (Lexbe Online pricing thereafter starts at just $79/m).  Lexbe Online allows you to search and tag emails, construct dynamic timelines to organize facts, print or locally save individual emails and attachments, and much more.

Pricing

Select which services you would like from the following options. Prices are 'per GB' to make your costs predictable.

Service Item	Cost/GB
Extract emails from PST to individual PDF or MSG files	$100
Return filtered emails as EML, MSG or PST	no charge
Upload emails to existing Lexbe Online account	no charge
Access to emails in Lexbe Online (30 days free)	no charge
Normal Delivery (5 business days)**	no charge
Fast (two business days)**	50% premium
One (rush business days)**	100% premium
Notes: Minimum $300 order charge.  GB based on uncompressed file size (e.g. without zip or other file compression).

** Delivery times subject to order size and pre-existing orders.  Ask us at order time for service return commitments.

Additional Information

If you have any questions, feel free to call (800-401-7809 x32) or email us at 

All services described on this and related pages are subject to Lexbe's Digitization Services Agreement.