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A global telecommunications provider, represented by Dickinson Wright, was in the midst of intellectual property litigation. Initially, electronic discovery in the case involved 10 custodians, but after the number of custodians unexpectedly tripled and a looming production delivery date, the company’s prospects for success were suddenly in doubt.
A major telecommunications company proposes to acquire one of its rivals, prompting a government antitrust review. During the investigation, the government issued a second request for production, and the company’s outside counsel – accustomed to a paper-based review process – suddenly faced a 30-day time frame to sort through 270 gigabytes of data and prepare it for review. With stiff daily fines for missing the deadline, paper review was no longer a viable option.
Although patent litigation is a fact of life for most pharmaceutical companies, few are adequately prepared to manage the costs and risks associated with electronic discovery. When a major domestic drug company faced simultaneous patent challenges against two of its signature products, the company turned to Fios for comprehensive e-discovery response planning to enhance preparations for the pending matters and establish a framework for responding to future litigation more efficiently and cost-ef
An international, for-profit hospital operator, facing a Federal, antitrust lawsuit, had 60 days to prepare for its scheduling conference. This required identifying, preserving and analyzing more than two terabytes of electronic evidence from 80 custodians, with data stored on 100 personal computers, data shares and servers in seven different regional data centers.
Litigation support professionals and paralegals frequently encounter unanticipated road bumps when using a variety of e-discovery service providers and/or technology platforms. Close collaboration among service providers, law firms and clients is crucial for sharing information, identifying various stakeholders’ requirements and coordinating schedules for an efficient, cost-effective discovery process. Two e-discovery experts share experiences and strategies gained from representing clients in l
ED101 - e-Discovery Fundamentals
Complex cases can involve terabytes of data that must be reviewed by large review teams - often on short timelines. Managing these reviews for quality and efficiency and ensuring production deadlines are met is critical. This management also requires balancing the needs of the case with goal of the corporate client who is looking at ways to control costs and mitigate risks (e.g. protecting privileged documents from getting accidentally produced to the requesting party). The job of the legal team
Effective electronic discovery review requires careful planning and project team training in order to ensure timelines are met, critical evidence is not missed (or inadvertently produced), and that resulting production sets meet both requesting party and court requirements. This article outlines three scenarios and approaches that can be applied to ensure success on future e-discovery engagements.
Have you been wondering what makes so many people enamored with the review tool Relativity? What does Relativity actually look like in action? Is it really as simple as they say? If you want to learn more about Relativity before your attorney asks, then this is the product briefing for you. You see how Relativity powered by Fios illuminates the entire data picture, providing accurate results you can trust.
In this webcast, our guest faculty will describe best practices for managing electronic reviews, from staffing and training concerns to finalizing a production. We will discuss the project management skills needed to timely complete responsiveness and privilege reviews, and tips and tricks for using technology to make the whole process easier. You will learn how to coordinate the efforts of reviewing attorneys and technical staff, while managing the expectations of partners and clients.
Litigation support professionals and paralegals that are new to the world of e-Discovery will benefit from this introduction to the workings of e-Discovery. The presenters will share insights gained from over 30 years of combined litigation paralegal experience. Get an understanding of the basic e-Discovery process, how to approach your next project with your attorneys and clients, and a new confidence about how to manage the world of e-Discovery.
There are 10 key processes legal teams need to address in order to successfully manage and lower the costs of document review.
This webcast will focus on how applying collaborative e-discovery practices can help litigation teams meet discovery obligations in a defensible and cost-effective manner. Topics of discussion will revolve around: Early case assessment as a means for identifying organizational and case needs; Evidence collection options available for preserving potentially relevant ESI without losing key metadata or chain of custody; Processing and culling strategies for ensuring that the right ESI is loaded and
Advanced Electronic Discovery
Review of electronically stored information can account for more than 65% of the total costs of e-discovery. Advanced search technologies have emerged with the promise to get these costs under control. Yet their effectiveness often depends on an understanding of the characteristics of the underlying data population, as well as the functions of keywords filters and search syntax used to identify potentially responsive evidence. This webcast will discuss the latest search strategies and technologi
The absolute number one lesson is to plan. I would advocate that in nearly every project, e-discovery or otherwise, doubling (yes doubling) the planning effort for a project results in substantially greater returns than the additional investment.
What are all these strange files in our data population? They may have hit on search terms or otherwise survived our culling strategy, but what do we do with them now? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions or think you might, you’ll want to see this webcast. Two Fios experts share strategies to identify and manage unusual file types during the culling and review stages of electronic discovery. A key theme of the discussion is how to treat unusual file types while maintaining relevan
You’ve done it. You’ve finally decided
that the discovery portion for the
matter you are managing is simply
too large for your little Concordance
database and the personnel assigned
to help get the data into it. So, you’ve
taken the plunge and decided to go
with a vendor that offers a hosted, online
review service.
Emerging Trends
In the current economic environment, managing e-discovery has become recognized as an important part of any responsible corporate strategy to reduce costs. There is a universal need to understand the e-discovery process. In this webcast, Fios' Mary Mack interviews Ralph Losey in conjunction with the release of his newest book, Introduction to E-Discovery: New Cases, Ideas, and Techniques, published by the American Bar Association.
This webcast addresses the e-discovery risks faced by the financial industry as litigation and investigation around subprime transactions unfold, particularly around the smoking guns and large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) that may exist somewhere in the e-universe. Those impacted will need to be prepared to answer questions around who knew what about the risk profile of the transactions, when did they know it, how were they represented, what were the expectations and what d
e-Discovery Standards & Best Practices
An AmLaw 200 law firm was representing a major entertainment company in an intellectual property dispute with one of its production partners, which was seeking millions in compensatory and punitive damages. Concerned about the scope and costs of electronic discovery, the law firm needed an e-discovery provider that could facilitate the processing, culling, review and production of more than three terabytes of potentially relevant evidence. Compounding matters, the judge had shortened the product
As the prevalence of sound recordings in today’s enterprises grows, new requirements for legal and regulatory compliance are accelerating the need to manage these recordings as business records. This paper outlines a new framework for managing the discovery process, specifically when audio recordings are requested.
Gigabyte for gigabyte, e-discovery in small matters often costs proportionately more than in large cases. New tools and techniques can help cut e-discovery costs in small matters, allowing cases to resolve based on merits instead of budget constraints.
Interest in applying project management concepts to e-discovery is on the rise. This webcast explores important impacts the discipline of project management can have on the efficiency, cost and outcome predictability of e-discovery projects. The speaker discusses the value and implications of project management as it relates to (1) expected outcomes, (2) growing the discipline in a law firm environment and (3) building project management expertise in the e-discovery context.
It is no secret that the majority of the cost of discovery resides in the cost of the review. Often, more than 80% of total electronic discovery costs can land here. It is exactly that metric that leads to the existence of e-discovery providers, such as Fios, who have the experience and capacity to ingest large (as in huge) amounts of raw data, disassemble that data to its lowest common level and then systematically and defensibly separate the chaff from the “potentially responsive.” This white
The speakers, including Jason R. Baron, Esq., Thomas Y. Allman, Esq., Maura Grossman, Esq., and Cynthia Bateman discuss the variety of processes, tools, techniques, methods and metrics that fall broadly under the umbrella term "quality measures" that can be applied during the various phases of the discovery workflow process.
This webcast will focus on how applying collaborative e-discovery practices can help litigation teams meet discovery obligations in a defensible and cost-effective manner. Topics of discussion will revolve around: Early case assessment as a means for identifying organizational and case needs; Evidence collection options available for preserving potentially relevant ESI without losing key metadata or chain of custody; Processing and culling strategies for ensuring that the right ESI is loaded and
You’ve done it. You’ve finally decided
that the discovery portion for the
matter you are managing is simply
too large for your little Concordance
database and the personnel assigned
to help get the data into it. So, you’ve
taken the plunge and decided to go
with a vendor that offers a hosted, online
review service.