Evidence Production Key to defensibility and good faith in any litigation or investigation is the ability to deliver electronically stored information (ESI) in an agreed-upon format that is reviewable by the requesting parties – on time and with accuracy. The standards and requirements for ESI production will depend on the file formats and delivery locations required by the recipients – whether outside counsel or a governmental agency. Legal teams need a process that enables them to keep track of what ESI went to which recipients and when. Fios has more than a decade of experience guiding clients through the evidence production process.
Benefits of Fios’ Evidence Production Services
Fios provides a complete range of Evidence Production Services, including exporting to TIFFs, production of native files and output to hard copy. We provide load files that can be uploaded into all third-party review and case management applications. Everything is tracked with Bates numbers or other separate tracking numbers, as specified by the client, to maintain authenticity and ensure metadata remains secure. Strict quality controls ensure that only relevant evidence is produced to the requesting party, thus protecting privileged ESI and ultimately saving costs and reducing risks.
With Fios' Evidence Production Services, clients receive fast, clean and accurate production in a range of formats. These services are guided by Fios' production managers, who possess a deep understanding of data and technical requirements. Fios' Evidence Production Services offer:
Choice of ESI production formats, with the ability to export to TIFFs, produce native files or output to paper
Integration with commonly used litigation management software
Strict quality control protocols methodologies utilizing ITIL and ISO protocols
Pilot productions allowing validation of requirements and quality
Complete documentation, delivered in native form, detailing efforts to accurately produce ESI, including open failures and TIFF image file processing and creation processes
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A global telecommunications provider, represented by Dickinson Wright, was in the midst of intellectual property litigation. Initially, electronic discovery in the case involved 10 custodians, but after the number of custodians unexpectedly tripled and a looming production delivery date, the company’s prospects for success were suddenly in doubt.
A high-profile brokerage was caught shifting hundreds of millions in debt off the books. A consortium of banks was sued for securities fraud. The law firm defending the banks needed a service provider with experience in complex, high-stakes cases and a robust review platform that could accommodate a geographically dispersed team of reviewers.
A major telecommunications company proposes to acquire one of its rivals, prompting a government antitrust review. During the investigation, the government issued a second request for production, and the company’s outside counsel – accustomed to a paper-based review process – suddenly faced a 30-day time frame to sort through 270 gigabytes of data and prepare it for review. With stiff daily fines for missing the deadline, paper review was no longer a viable option.
An international, for-profit hospital operator, facing a Federal, antitrust lawsuit, had 60 days to prepare for its scheduling conference. This required identifying, preserving and analyzing more than two terabytes of electronic evidence from 80 custodians, with data stored on 100 personal computers, data shares and servers in seven different regional data centers.
ED101 - e-Discovery Fundamentals
A global pharmaceutical company, in the midst of ongoing, class action litigation in both Federal Court and multiple state jurisdictions, was forced to respond to an e-discovery request in one matter involving 1,500 custodians in a four-month timeframe. More than 12 terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI) needed to be collected and reviewed by both the corporation and the supporting law firms.
Litigation support professionals and paralegals that are new to the world of e-Discovery will benefit from this introduction to the workings of e-Discovery. The presenters will share insights gained from over 30 years of combined litigation paralegal experience. Get an understanding of the basic e-Discovery process, how to approach your next project with your attorneys and clients, and a new confidence about how to manage the world of e-Discovery.
This webcast will focus on how applying collaborative e-discovery practices can help litigation teams meet discovery obligations in a defensible and cost-effective manner. Topics of discussion will revolve around: Early case assessment as a means for identifying organizational and case needs; Evidence collection options available for preserving potentially relevant ESI without losing key metadata or chain of custody; Processing and culling strategies for ensuring that the right ESI is loaded and
What if only half of the evidence in an "email" file could be produced for a discovery request? And, what if you didn't know which half? That is the problem and the challenge of Lotus Notes. It cannot be treated like Microsoft Outlook, yet most legal teams and e-Discovery providers do. That is a risky situation for corporate counsel and the law firms that represent them. In this webcast, legal professionals will learn why Notes creates unique challenges for discovery and how to mitigate the risk
Advanced Electronic Discovery
What are all these strange files in our data population? They may have hit on search terms or otherwise survived our culling strategy, but what do we do with them now? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions or think you might, you’ll want to see this webcast. Two Fios experts share strategies to identify and manage unusual file types during the culling and review stages of electronic discovery. A key theme of the discussion is how to treat unusual file types while maintaining relevan
Emerging Trends
This webcast addresses the e-discovery risks faced by the financial industry as litigation and investigation around subprime transactions unfold, particularly around the smoking guns and large volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) that may exist somewhere in the e-universe. Those impacted will need to be prepared to answer questions around who knew what about the risk profile of the transactions, when did they know it, how were they represented, what were the expectations and what d
Case Law / Rules
Case law around electronic discovery is changing rapidly due to evolving federal rules and court rulings. This quarterly update from Fios explores the implications of recent court decisions and the tactics and strategies organizations should consider to ensure compliance in a changing legal landscape.
Case law around electronic discovery is changing rapidly due to evolving federal rules and court rulings. This quarterly update from Fios explores the implications of recent court decisions and the tactics and strategies organizations should consider to ensure compliance in a changing legal landscape.
Cross-border discovery represents a challenge for organizations required to gather relevant data in foreign jurisdictions – either from opposing parties or their own affiliated organizations. This quarterly update from The Sedona Conference® provides an overview of the vastly different notions of discovery, data privacy and protection requirements facing organizations that conduct e-discovery involving electronically stored information (ESI) based outside the U.S.
Moderator: Carsten Casper,
In September, Congress passed and the President signed Senate Bill 2450, which enacted proposed Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 502. This is the first amendment to the federal rules regarding privilege since FRE 501 was enacted in 1975, and it marks a significant departure from the historic deference federal courts have paid to state law with regards to privilege. FRE 502, which authorizes federal courts to enter orders protecting the privileged status of attorney-client communications inadverten
Nineteen states have now incorporated e-discovery provisions in their general civil procedure codes or have modified specialized rules for their business courts, and at least five other states have new provisions pending in 2009. Tom Allman, a prominent voice in the legal community on e-discovery rules, along with Fios' Mary Mack, provide a review of what states are doing – or not doing – about procedural rules for e-discovery.
e-Discovery Standards & Best Practices
An AmLaw 200 law firm was representing a major entertainment company in an intellectual property dispute with one of its production partners, which was seeking millions in compensatory and punitive damages. Concerned about the scope and costs of electronic discovery, the law firm needed an e-discovery provider that could facilitate the processing, culling, review and production of more than three terabytes of potentially relevant evidence. Compounding matters, the judge had shortened the product
Hear from leading analysts George Socha and Tom Gelbmann on the activities that took place at LegalTech New York, developments in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) projects and overall e-discovery trends to follow in 2009.
Interest in applying project management concepts to e-discovery is on the rise. This webcast explores important impacts the discipline of project management can have on the efficiency, cost and outcome predictability of e-discovery projects. The speaker discusses the value and implications of project management as it relates to (1) expected outcomes, (2) growing the discipline in a law firm environment and (3) building project management expertise in the e-discovery context.
This webcast will focus on how applying collaborative e-discovery practices can help litigation teams meet discovery obligations in a defensible and cost-effective manner. Topics of discussion will revolve around: Early case assessment as a means for identifying organizational and case needs; Evidence collection options available for preserving potentially relevant ESI without losing key metadata or chain of custody; Processing and culling strategies for ensuring that the right ESI is loaded and