electronic discovery   consulting     >  discovery plans >  FRCP compliance >  litigation readiness >  litigation response strategies >  lit support dept. audits >  ED Educational Programs   DocHunter   project management   forensics   paper discovery	Matter Specific Electronic Discovery Plans Every litigation or investigation is different. Strategies deployed in a multi-party class action will not be optimal for a simple breach of contract dispute. Our consultants help you to customize your approach so you preserve, collect, review and produce the appropriate electronic data universe, while recognizing your need to continue business operations. The investment you make in planning at the front end is insurance against the cost of paying for doing it wrong at the back end. Data Preservation Do not make the mistake of thinking you do not have to preserve what you may not have to produce. Daegis consultants understand that the burden to preserve data is separate and distinct from the burden to produce data. We recommend preservation strategies that reflect this difference. Data Mapping Identifying the location of ESI data stores and understanding the type of data they contain is an integral part of an electronic discovery plan. Whether you are focused on what you need to preserve, or what you need to collect, you must have a comprehensive picture of your ESI universe. ESI is ubiquitous in today’s business world. It resides on the familiar employee workstation and on network servers, but it may also be found on your digital copier, your voicemail system and on the Bernoulli disks gathering dust in the IT secure storage area. Daegis consultants work with outside counsel and in-house personnel to identify data sources that may store potentially relevant evidence. We recognize the need to ask an IT director to look in their drawers for hard drives and to identify third party contractors using company purchased computers. Our consultants will know what else to ask when you may have thought your due diligence effort was complete. For those high profile, newsworthy or very sensitive matters, Daegis consultants will provide the objectivity you may need to minimize accusations that your effort is incomplete. Data Collection Collecting data that may ultimately need to be authenticated and introduced as evidence in court is not the same undertaking as copying and moving data for IT resource allocation purposes or complying with Human Resource policies. The tools you choose and the methodologies you employ at this critical first step may mean the difference between getting your key document admitted two years down the road and having it disallowed. Our data collection experts use defensible and auditable processes and court approved tools to collect only the data you need. We work collaboratively with your internal resources to develop a collection strategy that minimizes business disruption, cost and the risk that you will have to repeat the process or pay a penalty for doing it incorrectly in the first place. Data Reduction and Culling Techniques With 1 terabyte hard drives now available you can expect to collect an ever increasing volume of data. The effort you put into culling the data universe at the front end can result in considerable cost savings during the costly review phase of the litigation. Our consultants can work with you to develop custom strategies for reducing the number of “documents” that will be reviewed for subject matter and privilege. Where appropriate, we can develop sampling strategies that will allow you to support your contention that large volumes of data need not be reviewed at all. Data Hosting and Review DocHunter, Daegis’ proprietary review tool is intuitive and easy to learn even if your case is not. It leverages state of the art technology to speed the costly attorney review phase of a litigation. When your matter presents challenges due to the complexity of the issues, the geography of your reviewers, the foreign language content or just the sheer volume of data, Daegis consultants can work with you to create a customized hosting and review solution that meets your immediate needs. Let’s go forward.