Identification and Preservation
In the light of recent, high-profile litigation and amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, corporations increasingly recognize that they face the potential for dramatically escalating costs and higher business risks associated with compliance requirements and litigation and regulatory investigations. In an effort to mitigate these costs and risks and strengthen compliance, corporations today seek practical, sustainable solutions to proactively manage their business records.
Navigant Consulting’s Discovery Services practice provides companies and their legal counsel with comprehensive solutions for discovery preparedness, including supporting proactive identification and preservation of electronically stored information (ESI). We assist companies in developing strategies relating to implementing policy, procedures and technologies that allow business records to be effectively managed and maintained, accessed and identified, preserved and produced in a cost-effective, compliant manner that is both supportable and legally defensible.
Services
Legal Hold and Preservation Process Improvements
• Review current “legal hold” and preservation processes and procedures
• Develop recommendations for improvements
• Identify technologies to support existing processes and/or improvements
Technology Inventory
• Analyze and conduct inventory of existing technology infrastructure
• Develop processes and procedures to keep inventory current
Data Mapping
• Analyze and conduct inventory of all existing ESI
• Identify accessible and inaccessible ESI
• Develop processes and procedures to keep data map current
Records, E-Mail, and Document Management
• Review existing policies, procedures and technology systems
• Develop recommendations for improvements
• Coordinate stakeholders’ needs and interests through defined business requirements for identification, retention, searching, retrieval, and destruction of email and electronic documents
• Develop enforcement procedures for audit/compliance supervision and employee training

