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Electronic Evidence Discovery Enables Corporations to Architect Legal eDiscovery Processes
Company launches new practice to help companies reduce cost and time in Legal Document Processing and Review
KIRKLAND, Wash. – October 10, 2007 - Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc. (EED), a leader in the eDiscovery market, today introduced a new consulting practice to help corporations architect a standardized internal legal eDiscovery processes and protocols to better prepare for future litigation. The eDiscovery Process Design Practice leverages EED’s 20 years of experience in the industry and combines the company’s proven enterprise-wide eDiscovery process design with its deep understanding of the legal defensible protocols surrounding collection, processing, search, review and production.
EED’s eDiscovery Process Design Practice consists of a team of technology experts, former practicing attorneys and former corporate counsels. These experts help corporations architect an integrated system to better control the eDiscovery process from beginning to end, and reduce risk and costs.
“Our new consulting practice will help organizations be better prepared procedurally and systematically in the event that they face litigation,” said David McCann, president and chief executive officer of EED. “What makes EED’s consulting practice standout from other consulting firms is our proven methodology, our experience and our background, coupled with an in-depth understanding of the current Best Practices in the IT organizations of major U.S. corporations.”
“EED has a proven eDiscovery methodology that has been developed and honed for two decades and has been applied to over 1,500 cases,” McCann said.
EED’s service line addresses the complex interrelationship of eDiscovery procedures with records management, e-mail archiving and compliance controls. The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure heighten the need for the Fortune 1000 to address all of these issues together. Organizations need to have such procedures in place and EED’s eDiscovery Process Design practice works closely with Corporate Legal and IT departments to create customized solutions, and as a result, helps clients become self-reliant and better equipped to:
- Consistently respond to eDiscovery requests;
- Quickly identify data systems that likely contain discoverable content;
- Efficiently assemble the internal IT teams that will be called to respond; and
- Professionally advise corporate counsel on best practices for reducing the costs of processing, review and production.
“Many organizations face regular threats of litigation and would benefit from a customized and consistent eDiscovery process,” noted Steve Stein, vice president eDiscovery Consulting, EED. “As a pioneer of litigation hosted technology and electronic discovery services, we have the people, the processes and the technology to help them be prepared for whenever and wherever the threats may come.”
Founder of EED, John Jessen mentors the EED consultants and participates in certain projects directly as needed. Widely regarded as the pioneer of eDiscovery, Jessen has provided expert testimony in more than 60 matters, is the exclusive technical advisor to the Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Discovery, and regularly trains the federal and state judiciary in seminars throughout the nation.
About EED
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EED is the pioneer of electronic discovery. For more than a decade, we have reduced the cost and time required for eDiscovery in thousands of high risk cases. Our eDiscovery experts, who come from law firms, corporations, and the technology industry understand the complexity and risk involved in evidence management for large matters. Our clients — 60% of the Fortune 500 and 45% of the NLJ 250 — value our unmatched expertise, thought leadership and proven results. Through integration of our proven methodology, people and tools, EED delivers results that meet and surpass our clients’ expectations. EED is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.
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