Legal Project Services - Managing Disclosure

Managing Disclosure

The world of business is changing. Most business communication now takes place electronically, bringing new challenges for lawyers as they seek to identify and review relevant documents when disputes arise. With a requirement to locate and disclose electronic documents now specifically enshrined in the Civil Procedure Rules, discussions with Clients on the likely location of documents must extend beyond filing cabinets and file storage rooms, to include an understanding of how Clients are using IT, and their organisation's routines for backing up and storing data. With the proliferation of new methods of communication and data storage, the variety of locations and potential numbers of documents to be considered are growing all the time.

Speedy identification of the most potentially relevant documents aids decisions on strategy and advice to your Client. Printing out the contents of any electronic media to form a paper mountain, is neither a practical nor a cost effective solution. Lawyers must adopt new strategies in managing the disclosure process, and need a real understanding of the interaction between law, business and technology which such exercises create. Many legal teams have neither the IT expertise nor the Litigation Support resources to undertake such investigations.

Legal Project Services can provide an accredited Electronic Document Discovery Expert to support and guide you through every stage of the Disclosure process. We can help you to define an appropriate strategy to scope the document collection, identify the relevance criteria and key words which can be used to reduce the collection to a targeted group of documents most likely to assist the strategic objective of resolving the issues, and recommend the appropriate technological resources to complete the task quickly and cost effectively. Our experience allows us to join together your internal resources and expertise with the specialist external providers who can give your legal team the ability to provide the best and most cost effective service to your Clients.

Training

Is Electronic Disclosure a new challenge for your legal team? Ask about our highly rated Seminar "Managing Electronic Disclosure". This provides an ideal introduction to the practical issues of this important subject. Delivered at your offices, and tailored for Private Practice or In House teams, the seminar lasts 90 minutes and makes an ideal lunchtime training session for your Litigation Team.

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