eData
A vital part of our Litigation Practice, eData is an innovative group of records-management and eDiscovery professionals focused on making electronic data an advantage, rather than a risk, for our clients.
With the majority of corporate business information now in electronic form, many companies are struggling to manage increasingly large volumes of data. The eData team is here to guide you through this "storm of information." We partner with you to draw up records-management and discovery plans and policies that are thorough yet elegant, leaving your company with a records-management system that reduces regulatory and litigation risks, avoids a protracted discovery process, and serves your business in the long term.
Choosing only the technology and policies that will best serve your company's culture and business goals, we help you control the risks as well as the costs of:
- Records management
- Data mining
- eDiscovery
- Compliance
- Employee education
A national team with both West Coast and East Coast capabilities, eData offers compliance and prelitigation risk management, eDiscovery consulting, and document review for a wide breadth of matters, including:
- Litigation
- Regulatory
- Antitrust
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- White Collar
- Corporate Compliance
Strategy and Collaboration
You want practical, real-world advice from people who understand the risks your company may be facing, and a team that will reduce those risks before litigation strikes.
eData gives you all-inclusive counseling services that are practical and holistic, protecting your present and future business and litigation interests.
Our records-management team will help you meet your records-retention obligations as well as give you a defensible, reproducible approach to eDiscovery. The customized protocols we create for you today will address your current litigation matters and prove indispensable as you chart your business's future.
We focus on helping you find the technologies and strategies that will enable you to successfully manage your data—whether for regulatory compliance, litigation, due diligence, or government investigations—with an emphasis on electronic discovery.
In litigation, we provide start-to-finish matter management, from litigation holds and data preservation, to negotiations with opposing counsel, to discovery motion practice, depositions, and trial support.
Trained in business as well as legal practices, our work ethic is one of collaboration, communication, and transparency. We partner with your legal and IT teams with a clear understanding of your legal and regulatory obligations as well as your business needs.
By thorough planning and preparation, we do the legwork before litigation arises—so that electronic data risks become a nonissue in business or litigation strategy.
Records Management and Litigation Readiness
We provide innovative legal and technological solutions that help clients meet increasingly demanding operational, regulatory, and legal compliance requirements, while maintaining a watchful eye toward litigation and other controversies.
We focus on compliance and risk-management counseling, including records retention, litigation readiness, employee training, and compliance auditing. We also prepare your company to meet the enhanced obligations of the recently amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and state eDiscovery rules. Our litigation-readiness team also develops standardized processes for responding to requests for electronically stored information efficiently and effectively.
Our customized eDiscovery-readiness deliverables to you include:
- An IT map
- A data inventory
- A litigation response plan and checklist
- Modern records-retention policies, schedules, and practices
- Technology solutions recommended for optimized retention and litigation response
- A discovery checklist and litigation hold template
- Employee training materials
- Regulatory and recordkeeping compliance
- Relevant forms and templates, from discovery plans to form disclosures
Discovery
We understand that your company cares as much about controlling costs as it does about complying with discovery obligations. Our discovery processes are proven to maximize efficiency and cost-effectiveness without sacrificing quality.
We work with you to develop a defensible discovery plan for the preservation, harvest, processing, review, and production of your electronically stored information. With strategic, resourceful methods, we provide you with sensible, defensible plans to meet all your discovery obligations. We also offer alternative cost and fee structures.
Our attorneys are specially trained document reviewers who use nationally recognized best practices to ensure the speedy, cost-effective, and thorough review of your documents. Our teams work together in a collaborative open workspace to exchange ideas and problem-solve as a group. Their collaboration, backed by a comprehensive quality-control system, guarantees consistent and high-quality results.
From risk management to eDiscovery to trial support, one team concentrating on problem solving, collaboration, and creative solutions handles all aspects of your case. Combining legal experience with technological know-how, eData brings all aspects of electronic data and records management—which traditionally have operated independently—together in one practice. This critical link drives strategic thinking, collaboration, and problem solving.