Lifecycle Consulting

As an extension of our legal document review experience, our general counsel and full-time project managers assist our clients with e-discovery issues across the EDRM lifecycle. We recognize that effective upstream discovery management provides extensive savings related to document review and production. Centralized discovery management, as an extension of legal document review work, leverages knowledge and relationships built between the client and our project managers. Our

Below is a brief synopsis related to some of our services across the EDRM lifecycle:

• Information Management – Legal research for records retention schedules and project management support for the integration of records management and litigation readiness programs.
• Identification – Develop matter initiation plans and process, procedures, project management protocols to be utilized throughout the matter. Begin search strategy development.
• Preservation – Develop matter-specific preservation strategies. Draft template litigation readiness materials related to preservation, including preservation notices and policies and procedures. Begin creating litigation/investigation response plans, and assist with meet and confer outlines and strategies.
• Collection – Develop matter-specific collection plans. Outline collection strategies and protocols based on client needs and data sources and types.
• Processing – Refine search strategies and utilize project manager data analytics skills to cull and filter data sets for review.
• Review – Start to finish managed review, discussed in greater detail under the Managed Review tab of this website.
• Production – Draft production format specifications and production guidelines, and oversee productions.
• Data Privacy – Cross-border discovery and data privacy advice from our EVP of E-Discovery Services and General Counsel, who is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 6: International Electronic Information Management, Discovery, and Disclosure.