Industry: Legal/Law Firm
HOW FIOS CAN HELP
Fios has provided
e-discovery services to major law firms for over 10 years.
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e-Discovery for Law Firms and Legal Service Providers In the complex realm of e-discovery, law firms require the same high caliber, expert guidance and outstanding service that they bring to their clients. Fios enables legal teams to do what they do best—provide expert counsel—by providing legally defensible e-discovery consulting and data management services. Through expert guidance and a deep understanding of legal teams’ e-discovery needs, we deliver complete, accurate results and defensible strategies, foundational for risk mitigation and successful outcomes.
Case Study: Planning for Effective e-Discovery Review and Court Hearings
An AmLaw 200 law firm was representing a global financial institution in a class-action law suit and had 45 days to prepare its client for a hearing in front of the Federal magistrate judge. The client had to preserve, collect and review electronically stored information (ESI) from more than 60 custodians, involving 400+ gigabytes of e-mail plus data stored on servers, back-up tapes and proprietary systems.
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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 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.
ED101 - e-Discovery Fundamentals
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.
Case Law / Rules
Magistrate Judge Barbara Major recently sanctioned Qualcomm's outside counsel by sending them to the state disciplinary bar with a damning, detailed list of particulars. She also mandated that a root cause analysis be conducted by Qualcomm, optionally with a Broadcom representative, to develop a protocol or CREDO (comprehensive case review and enforcement of discovery obligations) so that similar discovery violations would not occur again. In this webcast, we explore: Due diligence prior to fili