Slack and Teams Forensic eDiscovery
Forensic and eDiscovery workflows for collaboration platforms — Slack and Microsoft Teams — covering messages, channels, direct messages, attachments, timestamps and users, prepared for review.
Who this service is for
For legal and investigation teams where workplace collaboration platforms hold material relevant to the matter.
- Litigation teams handling workplace communications
- Internal and corporate investigation practices
- Employment and misconduct investigators
- Regulatory and compliance teams
- Counsel needing collaboration data in review-ready form
What this service includes
- Collection of Slack and Microsoft Teams data
- Channels, direct messages, threads and attachments
- Preservation of participants, timestamps and edits where available
- Normalisation into RSMF for short-message review
- Date, channel, participant and keyword filtering
- Review-ready exports and production support
Typical data sources
We work with the data sources most often encountered in this type of matter:
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Channels & DMs
- Attachments & files
- Microsoft 365
- User & membership data
- Message metadata
Why defensibility matters
Collaboration data is dynamic — messages are edited, deleted and threaded. Defensible collection captures what is available with its metadata and structure intact, documents the method, and preserves chain of custody so the resulting review set is reliable and explicable.
How the workflow operates
- Scope the workspaces, channels and custodians in issue
- Collect Slack/Teams data with available metadata
- Preserve structure: channels, threads, participants, timestamps
- Normalise short messages into RSMF where appropriate
- Filter by date, channel, participant or keyword
- Export review-ready data with production support
Deliverables
- Processed Slack and Teams datasets
- RSMF exports for conversational review
- Preserved channels, threads and attachments
- Filtered, review-ready productions
- Collection and processing documentation
Frequently asked questions
Can you collect from Slack and Microsoft Teams?
Yes. We collect messages, channels, direct messages, attachments, timestamps and user information, subject to the access and export options available for the environment.
Do you support RSMF for Teams and Slack?
Yes. Short messages can be normalised into RSMF so conversations are reviewed with structure and participants preserved.
How do you handle edited or deleted messages?
We capture what is available from the source and document the method; recoverability of edits or deletions depends on the platform and retention settings.
Collaboration-platform data, review-ready
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