eData

With our global footprint, EU data center, and top-tier international, regional, and local legal capability, Morgan Lewis’s eData practice now delivers electronic discovery/disclosure, data analytics, regulatory and investigative support, contract management, and information governance services worldwide. The practicality and efficiency that are the hallmarks of the US eData practice are now available to clients no matter where they are located. We offer the full complement of technical services our global clients require—from forensic collection and data analytics to data processing, hosting, review, and production—combined with our robust legal experience in discovery/disclosure, information governance, cybersecurity, and data privacy.

Our UK-based data center enables Morgan Lewis’s eData teams to deliver data collection, analysis, review, disclosure, and disposition services while addressing any data privacy concerns. Our proprietary EU workflow combines Morgan Lewis’s legal expertise, best-in-breed technology, multi-language capability, and EU-compatible managed review to respond to our client’s international investigations, litigation, and arbitration needs.

Our hybrid team of lawyers and technologists is positioned to provide true end-to-end services related to disclosures, information governance, and contract management. We help clients increase predictability using defensible, repeatable processes while leveraging the latest data analytics technologies. Our clients enjoy substantial savings throughout the data lifecycle, including document review and analysis, for which we design and leverage industry-leading off-shore review, advanced analytics, and predictive coding workflows.

For more information on our global eData services and our EU data center, please contact Philadelphia partner Tess Blair, or London partners David Waldron or Pulina Whitaker. 

Understanding the critical nature of data privacy and information governance, Morgan Lewis’s eData team has partnered with Special Counsel/D4 to establish a state-of-the-art, high-security data center in China to help multinational clients better meet growing regulatory obligations. Our Shanghai-based data center enables our team to collect, process, analyze, review, and prepare data and documents for disclosure, all within China, using the Relativity platform.

Although the technical and legal requirements of discovery and disclosure—as well as their expense—continue to challenge companies of all kinds, data privacy laws and access are the major challenges on the global stage. China’s Cybersecurity Law and other data protection regulations require that data be stored in China and reviewed by Chinese lawyers before being transferred. Our Shanghai data center provides the physical infrastructure necessary to comply with China’s data protection laws—a more defensible solution than attempting to transfer data outside of China or host it on a cloud platform.

Chinese clients and companies doing business in China benefit from our eData practice’s full forensic collection capability that optimized efficiency and outcomes while minimizing the potential for large financial expenditures or major business interruptions. Our proprietary China collection kits, which reside in our Shanghai center, are fully equipped with custodian consent forms and can be used for targeted document collections or full forensic imaging.

Our Shanghai center offers Relativity, an industry-leading, scalable document review platform—the same platform we offer in the United States and European Union. Relativity’s security is robust, dynamic, and granular. It restricts users from creating screenshots, copying text, and printing documents, and permissions are granted only by system administrators. Relativity also has the ability to handle multiple languages, allows review in non-English languages in native formats, and goes beyond Unicode compliance to support a large range of other source encoding types that accommodate multiple language documents and review.

With a global footprint and top-tier regional and local legal capabilities, our eData practice delivers electronic discovery/disclosure, data analytics, regulatory and investigative support, contract management, and information governance services worldwide. The practicality and efficiency that are hallmarks of our US eData practice are now available to clients no matter where they are located. We offer the full complement of technical services that our global clients require—from forensic collection and data analytics to data processing, hosting, review, and production—combined with our robust legal proficiency in discovery/disclosure, information governance, cybersecurity, and data privacy.

We provide full-cycle, all-in discovery services—data analytics, processing, hosting, review, project management, and production—on an alternative fee basis. We also provide start-to-finish counseling, from legal holds and data preservation to negotiations with opposing counsel and discovery motion practice, depositions, and trial support. All facets of discovery-management services can be handled by our eData lawyers and technologists.

All of our discovery services are performed by the eData team at our offices and discovery centers in the United States and across the world:

• Data analytics, including early data assessment
• Processing
• Hosting
• Technology-assisted review
• Relevance review
• Privilege review
• Regulatory and recordkeeping compliance
• Legal-hold process
• Production

We also provide information management services aimed at improving efficiencies, including:

• Technology (infrastructure and process) evaluation and recommendation
• Litigation-readiness plan
• Development of information management policy and practices 

Our eData Deskbook is in its third edition and is a guide to understanding current discovery methods and federally mandated ediscovery court requirements. It includes up-to-date case law and reflects the changing landscape of this dynamic area of practice.

Authored by senior members of the eData team in 2009, the first edition of the eData Deskbook quickly became an invaluable reference for firm lawyers and clients navigating data management and electronic discovery issues.

To request a copy of the eData Deskbook, please contact us at edata@morganlewis.com.