Use case — E-Discovery

Digital evidence only holds up if you can prove how it moved.

Legal teams collect ESI across dozens of sources — then hand it off, share it with counsel, and put it through review. Every transfer is a chain-of-custody gap waiting to be challenged.

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Courts don't accept "we think the files were untouched."

Where chain of custody breaks today

Transfer to outside counsel Email attachments and consumer file shares leave no defensible record of who accessed what, and when.

Document review handoffs Review teams download, annotate, and re-share. The original custody record ends the moment the file leaves your control.

No visibility after access Once opposing counsel or a third-party reviewer has the file, you have no log of downstream actions to produce in court.

SOC 2 Type 1 Certified

Tamper-Evident File Records

Auto Chain-of-Custody Reports

TLS 1.2+ / AES-256

Managed or Self-Hosted

The Core Problem

You need a secure place to store evidence.

After digital evidence is collected, it needs to be stored and shared with legal teams. You also have to be able to prove chain of custody to the court at trial.

Stellarbridge doesn't replace your review platform. It governs how evidence moves before, during, and after review — so the record is always intact.

Problem 01 — Storage

Legal teams need a secure place to store digital evidence.

Legal teams collect digital evidence from all over the place — emails, phones, computers, cloud storage, and more. This data is highly sensitive, and once it is collected you need a secure place to store it that will hold up to legal scrutiny.

📧Email

💻Device

☁️Cloud

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Secure Vault AES-256 · Tamper-Evident

Problem 02 — Sharing

Legal teams need the ability to securely share digital evidence.

Once evidence has been compiled, that data needs to be viewed and shared among your legal team and opposing counsel, and that all has to be defensible in court.

Problem 03 — Chain of Custody

Lawyers must demonstrate that digital evidence has not been tampered with.

When lawyers collect ESI they need not only a secure way to store and transfer it but they are also legally required to demonstrate an unbroken chain of custody. A gap in that record renders that evidence inadmissible.

Evidence Timeline

Collected Hash verified · Logged

Stored AES-256 · Access controlled

Transferred Secure link · Receipt logged

Report Generated Unbroken · Court-ready PDF

0Gaps

AutoReport

Problem 04 — Legal Hold

The legal field requires legal holds.

Legal teams are required to keep evidence for a period of time even after the trial.

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Legal Hold Active

📄 Exhibit_Vol1.zip Held

📄 Deposition_A.pdf Held

📄 Production_Set.zip Held

3yrRetention

0Deletions

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How Stellarbridge Addresses It

The controls legal teams need for defensible ESI handling

Stellarbridge gives legal teams a secure and compliant place to store and share sensitive legal documents and evidence, with custom legal hold retention to meet your needs, complete with full chain of custody reports showing every action from upload, views, and sharing.

Scoped Access Controls

Least-privilege permissions enforced at the file level — per reviewer, per matter, per phase of the case.

Auto Chain-of-Custody Reports

Complete, timestamped custody records auto-generated on demand or at deletion. Structured for legal review, not just IT.

Secure External Transfer

Time-bound, expiring links for counsel, vendors, and opposing parties. Full access logs. No account sprawl.

Tamper-Evident File Records

Cryptographic hash capture at upload. Every subsequent event logged against the original baseline — provably unaltered.

Integration Ready

API access to connect transfer and custody events into existing matter management and review workflows.

Flexible Deployment

Managed or self-hosted. Retention configurable per matter. Data residency boundaries for firms with jurisdictional requirements.

Getting Started

Up and running before your next matter opens

Bring your litigation support lead and a compliance stakeholder. We'll map controls to your matter workflow and get you configured.

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Walk through ESI transfer, custody record structure, and access controls with our team using a real matter scenario.

30 minutes

Map controls to your matter workflow

We align Stellarbridge's controls to your collection, review, and production phases — including hold policies, retention, and deployment model.

Architecture review included

Go live on your next matter

Tenant setup in 12–24 hours. No installs for end users. Every transfer governed and logged from day one.

Deploy in days, not months

E-Discovery FAQs

Common questions, direct answers.

Start here if you're evaluating Stellarbridge for litigation or regulatory matters. Deeper documentation is available after a demo.

Stellarbridge generates a complete, timestamped audit record for every file — upload, access, download, security changes, and deletion — with user identity and geo/IP metadata. Chain-of-custody reports are auto-generated on deletion or pulled on demand as structured PDFs. Whether those records satisfy a specific court's admissibility standard is a legal determination your counsel makes; Stellarbridge provides the technical record that supports it.

Outside counsel receive time-bound, expiring secure links — no Stellarbridge account required. Access is logged in the same chain-of-custody record as internal activity. Download limits are configurable per transfer. When a link expires, access is revoked automatically and the custody record is preserved.

Yes. Stellarbridge captures a cryptographic hash of each file at upload and logs any subsequent event against that original record. This provides a tamper-evident baseline that can be compared at any point during the matter.

Review team access is scoped at the file level with configurable permissions. Every access event — including views, downloads, and link forwards — is captured in the audit log. Private workspaces prevent lateral access between matters. Time-bound links for external reviewers expire automatically.

Yes. Self-hosted deployment is available for firms requiring direct infrastructure control and defined data residency boundaries. Retention policies are configurable per matter. Contact us to discuss architecture options.

Audit logs are retained for three years by default. Retention policies are configurable to align with matter-specific hold requirements or jurisdictional retention obligations.

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See how Stellarbridge fits your E-Discovery workflow.

We'll map your current ESI transfer and review process, identify chain-of-custody gaps, and show a practical rollout path for defensible evidence handling.

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Prefer email? Reach us at contact@stellarbridge.app — typical response within 4 hours.