IT-Discovery

Solutions

What can be done with a data mining application that puts very large amounts of electronically stored data at your fingertips?

Enterprise

Internal Investigations

At least since the new FRCP rules were adopted in December 2006, it has been necessary to be able to produce electronically stored information in the way such information is customarily kept. Compliance with regulations, however, is not simply a function of preserving documents, but also and especially of conforming to the substance of those regulations. How do you know that your sales force, in a pharmaceutical company, is not promoting “off label”? That your traders are not acting on inside information? That your intellectual property is not leaking out the door?

Ask the most astute investigators from law enforcement or the legal community how they begin an investigation and the most honest answer is always “good question”. The typical way one begins is to interview various players, but which ones? With IT-Discovery you have constant hints as to who matters and why. You can use IT-Discovery to begin your investigation at any time.

IT-Discovery is about risk management.

Culling

Since the greatest cost savings in litigation is a direct function of the amount to be reviewed by outside counsel, the key is providing as little as possible, while of course providing as much as is necessary. The noise in most ESI, the use of keywords which naturally overproduces, the very broad nature of discovery requests which sometimes stick, all conspire to make a document production for review very large. IT-Discovery plays on both sides of this fence: it helps reduce the amount produced for review, and it makes the review by the law firm much more efficient.

IT-Discovery is about cost savings.

Early Case Assessment

Once sued, it is impossible to assess liability without a good deal of knowledge. The head of litigation at a very large technology company once said “I have fifty thousand employees around here, how am I supposed to know what every one of them did?” and similarly, the degree of liability is a potentially huge source of cost saving: settle for something quickly or risk settlement or court for a much larger amount of money. Early case assessment is possible only with infrastructure at the ready to determine “what happened here” and therefore “what is my exposure”. One is otherwise guessing in the dark. You can use IT-Discovery to begin your investigation at any time, and the law firm can pass on the legal implications of your exposure.

IT-Discovery is about finding out what you need to know quickly.

Law Firm

Review

It is well known that eighty percent of the cost of producing to the other party is the cost of Attorney time reviewing documents. IT-Discovery’s single-minded focus is in finding what matters and making what doesn’t matter disappear. By doing so, IT-Discovery reduces the cost of review by reducing the amount needed to review.

The biggest problem in any large review set is getting rid of the vast amount of noise that constitutes a typical email inbox- these are the server alerts, jokes, and dinner plans that are usually of little importance to your investigation, but nevertheless managed to make it through the keyword, custodian and date filtering process. At the same time that it produces and hides the likely irrelevant material, it produces and highlights the likely relevant material.

IT-Discovery is about productivity.

Ease of use

There is good reason why “training sessions” proliferate in the litigation support area. There is an almost complete disregard for intuitive interfaces in many applications, in favor of features that improve demos or just out of sloppiness. IT-Discovery, on the other hand, is extremely easy to use, often requiring nearly no training.

IT-Discovery is about saving time.

Government

Many governmental agencies have a need to do investigations and IT-Discovery brings its same force to that task that it does for internal investigation of corporations. Additionally, there is the need, under FOIA, for example, for the federal government to produce documents legally requested and falling under the statute as necessary to produce. This task can be monumental. IT-Discovery can be used by governmental agencies to quickly and inexpensively respond to such requests.

IT-Discovery: risk-management, cost savings, immediate access to critical information, productivity and time-saving.

Traditional & Per-Unit Pricing

IT.com offers competitive per gigabyte pricing on its data processing and hosting services. We can also simplify the process of buying document review services by offering a flat price per document reviewed — data processing, hosting and first-pass contract attorney review included. Clients enjoy absolute price predictability, with no hidden costs.