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	Corporate Litigation Response Strategies Is there a line item in your budget that reflects how many times you have paid to consider who should receive a litigation hold notice, to educate outside counsel about your IT infrastructure or summarizes the hours spent by your paralegals on all matters to compile record retention policies? When undertaking a risk assessment to determine whether you should spend any money on proactively preparing for the next electronic discovery request have you factored in the value of demonstrating the “good faith” effort courts now routinely refer to in deciding discovery disputes? Eventually, courts will expect parties to have proactively implemented an appropriate Litigation Response Strategy given the high profile of this issue. Daegis consultants work collaboratively with your in-house resources to prepare Litigation Response Strategies that will withstand scrutiny and give you the leverage you need for negotiating favorable electronic discovery terms at the early stages of a litigation. We work with you to identify the people, data sources, data types, technology and policies that together give you a cohesive strategy. Expect your bottom line to improve whether you take all or some of the steps below. Objective Third Party ESI Data Mapping If you do not already have a Data Map, Daegis will help you create one. 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. Create Discovery Response Teams We help you to identify the key personnel who need to be involved in responding to a litigation hold and discovery requests. Expect this team to include representatives from different business units from IT to legal and human resources. Our strategies include direction on how to act as an efficient team to save money and time. Implement Business Process Daegis consultants will work with you to create an organized, efficient, repeatable process for managing your electronically stored information in litigation. As a result, you will have the control you need to actively manage the process instead of it managing you. With consistent documented methodologies in place you eliminate the unnecessary business interruption that results from ad hoc reactions to each new litigation. We provide direction on how to constantly improve your process so that you are always on track for using "best practices" to: • Implement Litigation Holds • Adhere to Document Retention Policy • Preserve Data • Identify Responsive Data • Collect Data Let’s go forward.