In the age of big data, discovery management requires increasing amounts of money, time, and effort. Our data & discovery management experts collaborate with legal organizations, IT, and vendors to build holistic discovery programs based on practical and consistent workflows to minimize risk and control cost.
We focus on understanding your current discovery processes from preservation through production and data disposition. We provide strategic guidance and help augment your team based on decades of experience across multiple industries.
Our core services include:
Case strategy & project management
- Managing discovery obligations on individual cases through disciplined planning, proactive communication, experienced judgment, and consistent reporting.
- Issuing legal holds and monitoring compliance.
- Executing controls for data collection activities and establishing data processing parameters.
- Organizing document reviews including the adherence to review guidelines, accuracy and productivity reporting, and ongoing cost monitoring.
- Conducting quality control of document productions and preparation of complex courtroom exhibits, privilege logs, and trial binders.
- Executing on case closing procedures to ensure holds are lifted and data disposition protocols are enacted.
Program management
- Assessing the current state program including documented discovery workflows, roles and responsibilities, and technology.
- Developing a best in class holistic approach built upon standard, defensible, and repeatable discovery operating models.
- Advising and supporting deployment and change management efforts during implementation.
- Providing training for in-house, outside counsel, and preferred providers on your approach to discovery.
- Replicating and applying a consistent case management approach across your legal portfolio.
- Reporting on performance metrics to drive accountability and demonstrate ongoing success.
Our experience shows that when an effective case management approach can be replicated across the legal organization’s portfolio of matters, the efficiencies have a multiplier effect on defensibility and cost reduction.
