Whether as outside counsel, associated counsel, "of counsel" or as consultants, we can provide you a suite of services tailored to your needs and the needs of your clients. Here are just some of the ways we can help you:
• Design and draft Electronic Discovery Plans, under amended federal rules 16 and 26(f).
• Assist counsel with E-Discovery motion and discovery practices.
• Assemble, coordinate and manage an E-Discovery Team and early, efficient response protocols.
• Use comprehensive online RFPs to choose the best and most affordable vendor(s) from our extensive database of E-Discovery vendors.
• Provide input to Records Management about document and email retention policy issues regarding E-Discovery.
• Working with IT to identify the "data universe" of E-Discovery evidence.
• Assist counsel with evidentiary issues regarding E-Discovery such as authentication.
• Implement discovery protocols and best practices consistent with the amended Federal Rules of Civil procedure (effective December 2006).
• Prepare a Litigation Preparedness Plan to streamline the E-Discovery process and reduce overall costs.
• Create, or if one exists, update a data repository of commonly requested documents and electronically stored information produced in litigation.
• Act as a liaison between corporate counsel and corporate IT to effectively handle E-Discovery matters.
• Train corporate IT on how to be effective in Rule 30(b)(6) depositions and “meet and confer" requirements.
• Provide in-house CLEs on E-Discovery for corporate lawyers and staff.
• Technical review of E-Discovery vendors’ systems, technology, processes and personnel.
• Review and make recommendations regarding software and other technology that can be used by you to more effectively handle and reduce the costs of E-Discovery.
• Develop systems and protocols to handle the most difficult E-Discovery data types: spreadsheets, databases, and audio files (e.g. voice mail).
• Determine when and if computer forensics is needed for a legal matter and, if so, how it can be done in the most effective and cost-effective manner.
• Evaluate in-house E-Discovery systems that can be used to substantially reduce the cost of E-Discovery (e.g. Cricket Box, Discover-E, Hard Copy Pro, Zantaz, Discovery Partner and others).
• Review and make recommendations regarding the use of textual and concept-based search technologies (e.g. DTsearch, DolphinSearch, Cataphora, Autonomy, Engenium and others.)
• In appropriate cases, recommend the best online review tools for the matter (e.g. Catalyst, Case Central, Inview, Prevail and others).
• When there is too much E-Discovery data to review, recommend a data visualization tool (e.g. Attenex).
• If necessary, create custom software applications to manage the workflow and specific tasks needed for E-Discovery cases.
• Preliminarily review copies of imaged data to determine the presence of any sensitive data before sending the data to outside vendors. This process can save money and alert you seasonably to whether there is strong evidence supporting or hurting the case.