Deloitte Discovery: Litigation ReadinessReduce your risk. Manage your costs. |
The Issue
Developing procedures and protocols to proactively manage electronically stored data and hard copy documents in anticipation of discovery requests arising out of complex litigation or regulatory investigations.
- Preparation
- Reduced Risk
- Controllable Costs
Implementing a readiness program can help your company mitigate the risk of sanctions or penalties due to noncompliance with a discovery request, reduce the time and manpower involved in responding to a discovery request, and better predict and manage the costs of assembling the relevant data.
The Solution
A plan with actionable procedures and protocols to help you manage the discovery process more strategically and in a cost-effective manner.
Deloitte Discovery professionals work with your company’s in-house legal, information technology and other departments to develop a plan for responding to a discovery request. Our ultimate goal is to assist you in implementing a readiness program that can potentially reduce your risk and manage your costs. This includes:
- Evaluation: We seek out the gaps in your company’s discovery procedures and technologies, using our knowledge of records management, legal holds, electronically stored information storage, processing, hosting and review, and analytic and forensic technology.
- Road Map: We create a road map to guide your company in the use of leading practices to implement a consistent, sustainable discovery readiness program.
- Process Engineering: We help your company re-engineer existing processes – or create new ones – to help simplify identifying, preserving, collecting, processing, hosting, reviewing and producing requested information.
- Validation: We work with your company to validate the steps taken in developing your readiness program, should a challenge to your discovery process ever arise.
Industry Focus
Financial Services: One of the largest financial services firms in the U.S. engaged Deloitte to assist with its e-discovery readiness program and its legacy data issues.
Actions and Deliverables
- Assessed the client’s hold procedures in response to a subpoena
- Looked at its collection, culling and reviewing process
- Reviewed its production and storing of relevant Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
- Identified gaps in their process
- Designed and conducted training on an e-discovery toolkit that their legal and IT staff use on a day-to-day basis
- Conducted an inventory of their systems
- Created a catalog of electronic data
- Built technology tools for faster identification and collection of relevant data;
- Assisted with handling all aspects of the e-discovery process for individual cases.
Insurance: Deloitte assisted the client in developing and implementing a national records management program.
Actions and Deliverables
- Created a program to educate executive leadership and gain their support for a company-wide records management program
- Reviewed current and created new policies, procedures and retention schedules for managing records corporate wide
- Identified and classified records
- Conducted a systems review of unstructured and structured data
- Reviewed training plans for implementing the revised program
Developing this standardized records program was the first phase of a multistep process to evaluate and implement a company-wide discovery program.
Healthcare: Deloitte conducted an e-discovery program assessment to identify gaps in the client’s processes, policies and procedures. We worked with the company’s IT and legal staff.
Actions and Deliverables
- Prioritized a list of current deficiencies and developed an implementation plan
- Facilitated a vendor selection process for purchasing software to help identify and collect Electronically Stored Information (ESI) from their global sales force
- Provided identification, collection, processing and production services on some of the company’s biggest and most complex litigation matters
About Deloitte Discovery
Deloitte Discovery is a continuum of discovery services − from readiness to collection, processing, hosting, review and production – provided by the professionals of Deloitte. With powerful technology and processes, and the right people, we assist legal counsel in addressing the challenges of today’s complex litigation and investigation environment.
As used in this document, ‘Deloitte’ means Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.
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