Case Study: Defensibly Processing Complex ESI in Class Actions
A global pharmaceutical company, in the midst of ongoing, class action litigation in both Federal Court and multiple state jurisdictions, was forced to respond to an e-discovery request in one matter involving 1,500 custodians in a four-month timeframe. More than 12 terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI) needed to be collected and reviewed by both the corporation and the supporting law firms.
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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 high-profile brokerage was caught shifting hundreds of millions in debt off the books. A consortium of banks was sued for securities fraud. The law firm defending the banks needed a service provider with experience in complex, high-stakes cases and a robust review platform that could accommodate a geographically dispersed team of reviewers.
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.
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 who manage electronic discovery projects experience high stakeholder expectations, complex requirements, difficult issue resolution and tight timelines. The process can quickly deteriorate to a state of chaos if not properly managed. The goal of this white paper is to introduce practical project management concepts and tools that can be easily leveraged with current litigation support expertise to increase project success.
ED101 - e-Discovery Fundamentals
A global pharmaceutical company, in the midst of ongoing, class action litigation in both Federal Court and multiple state jurisdictions, was forced to respond to an e-discovery request in one matter involving 1,500 custodians in a four-month timeframe. More than 12 terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI) needed to be collected and reviewed by both the corporation and the supporting law firms.
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.
Advanced Electronic Discovery
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
Emerging Trends
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
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.
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.