E-Discovery Consultant & Law Firm

Rule 26 Conference, Deposition, and Trial Support

Provides Rule 26 preparation support, legal "burden analysis" and objective case management conference support or motion hearing testimony to assist in responding to overly broad and unduly burdensome discovery requests related to electronically stored information (ESI). Provides technical assistance in preparing and responding to discovery requests regarding the preservation, collection, processing, production and authentication of ESI. Investigates, analyzes and estimates adversary’s capabilities and likely policies. Provides technical assistance preparing for and during depositions, trial preparation, and courtroom presentations.

Assess the technological environment to account for organizational, technical and logistical issues that impact effective data gathering. Provides objective evaluation of technology and vendor skill / experience / capabilities as guided by your defined objectives and priorities. Provides efficient and independent oversight of IT department or vendor e-discovery and litigation support projects.

Assists Corporate Counsel and law firms plan secure and comprehensive data-gathering strategies. Provides independent analysis of various vendors' options for data-gathering solutions using forensically sound procedures designed to minimize the cost, exposure, and the impact on business operations. Determines what metadata is relevant to a litigation matter and what is not.

Educates management and employees, each at appropriate levels, about e-discovery best practices. Assists trial counsel in developing an e-discovery plan in compliance with the applicable legal standards regarding preservation and collection of electronic data. Provides valuable insight into an opponent's information systems for preparing offensive discovery strategies. Coordinates all corporate counsel, outside litigators, technology IT staff members and vendors on your team to develop plans that address document preservation, collection processes, chain of custody, authentication and production of responsive materials.

Provides support or takes responsibility for the project's documentation during the preservation and data gathering processes and litigation support through trial when needed. Provides supervisory assistance of your litigation support staff and/or your vendors.

Assists with drafting and maintaining updated collections of preservation demand letters, model orders regarding electronic data management, electronic document reviews and productions; draft interrogatories and requests for production and inspection of things regarding electronic data; Notice of 30(b)(6) Depositions and other inspections regarding information technology devices and systems.

Experienced in evaluation, installation and training of legal vertical market technology products and related hardware sold from 1991 to 2007 including without limitation; WORLDOX, SoftSolutions, iManage, PC DOCS, Concordance, ConQuest, Summation, Litigator’s Notebook products, EnCase, TrialDirector, Juris, Timeslips, Time Matters, Billing Matters, Hot Docs, CaseMap, TimeMap, IPRO, and custom developed solutions for corporate counsel use. IT Systems turnkey Project Management and troubleshooting experience with Microsoft NT, Windows 2000, and XP servers (SQL and Exchange) and desktops in environments with up to 600 users for an award winning Certified Microsoft Partner consultancy.