A corporate litigation readiness program addresses an organization’s responsibilities to manage business information and preserve data potentially relevant to litigation. The goal is to integrate these sometimes competing needs and reduce a company’s liability through thoughtful planning, systematic procedures, increased communication, and technology support. Our team is comprised of records managers, technology specialists, litigation support professionals, and collection experts so we understand the needs of all departments involved. These assessments and implementations are done directly with the corporation or coordinated with outside counsel legal expertise. Either way, an inclusive litigation readiness program:
- Establishes records management policies and retention schedules for all media types
- Preserves electronic data
- Codifies legal hold procedures and templates
- Identifies relevant custodians and records
- Documents processes for identifying and extracting data in a content search and collection
- Develops processing best practices including chain of custody standards
- Defines litigation review best practices including implementation of one discovery repository to be used by all outside counsel
- Identifies corporate production procedures