Discovery Consulting Services
Integreon’s Consulting Practice provides the guidance, assistance and proven best practices that our clients need to efficiently manage their discovery requirements. Our consultants can facilitate your organization’s discovery preparedness with expert guidance on data mapping and profiling, evaluation of IT systems, audits of policies and procedures and discovery readiness assessments. They can also provide valuable insight through data mining and analytics.
Data Mapping and Profiling
To prepare for legal proceedings, corporations routinely face the daunting task of identifying, profiling and inventorying their systems and data sources. Integreon can assist through the following methodologies:
- IT interviews to establish baseline information requirements for complete data assessment
- Legal team interviews to identify current and responsive systems and data sources
- Executive overviews to summarize IT and legal team interviews
Discovery Evaluation of IT Systems
Our technology agnostic approach enables us to objectively determine if our client’s needs are being met by their current commercial application or enterprise content management (ECM) provider. Based on our assessments, we can provide clients with:
- Assessments of current ECM and information life cycle management plans
- Gap analysis of the search and export features of current systems
- Executive reports that identify the process steps followed to conduct the assessment and to generate the results
Preservation and Data Collection Audit
As the frequency of document preservation orders increases or as data sets grow in size, a solid preservation program becomes even more crucial. Our preservation and data collection audits are extremely functional and take the following areas into consideration:
- Preservation policies
- Collection methodologies
- Litigation hold communications
- Employee training
- Technologies utilized
Based on the results of the audit, Integreon will deliver an expert-level report highlighting methodologies, findings, conclusions and recommendations.
Discovery Readiness Gap Analysis
Policy and Procedure Review
To better prepare our team to conduct thorough interviews, it is our practice to first review your organization’s policies and procedures including; contingency plans, IT schedules, network topology and types of systems and applications, standard configurations and settings, employee training materials, legal notices and public disclosures of information. Upon engagement, we will identify any documents in your possession (including draft formats) that could be relevant to the analysis.
Assessment
Following the review of your documentation, Integreon conducts multiple interviews by phone and in-person. Topics for interviews can include policies and procedures, practices, applications, systems and device types, off-site locations, and more. The interview process will identify any potential gaps and alert our team to areas where we should concentrate effort.
The result of this assessment will enable Integreon to deliver an expert-level report highlighting our methodologies, findings, conclusions and recommendations.
Discovering Knowledge Through Data Mining & Analytics
Invaluable lessons have been learned through analyzing data from different dimensions, categorizing it, and summarizing the relationships. By identifying patterns or correlations among dozens of fields previously stored in large relational databases, legal teams have the ability to cull out relevant information and organize it for review.
When efficiently performed, this process will enable your legal team to ultimately reduce your risk, time, and expenses in response to discovery. Through the use of data mining and analytics, Integreon’s team of consultants can help you to effectively minimize your requirements for preservation, collection, processing, review and data production.
The results of data mining include:
- Identifying relevant information from large volumes of structured and unstructured data
- Identifying important case factors that might have been unknown
- Identifying potentially important custodians through the deployment of sophisticated algorithms and analytics
- Linking transactions from separate systems for relationships and patterns analysis
- Clustering information into groups for use in a document review process
- Identifying sequential patterns to efficiently recognize trends across multiple databases
- Reducing the subset of potentially relevant ESI
Contact Us
Our broad expertise from planning through production enables our consultants to engage with clients across all phases of the discovery process to address requirements for complex litigation and regulatory compliance. We can also help you succeed on a range of technology related issues.
To speak with one of our consulting experts about your next project or about recommended best practices, please contact us by calling 1-877-433-5227 or by submitting an email inquiry to our e-discovery sales team.