eDiscovery and Information Retention Counseling

In Depth

Measurable Value

We partner with our clients and legal teams to design and execute discovery plans with an eye toward creating a defensible framework. This results in maximized efficiency, higher quality, defensibility and cost savings – all competitive advantages.

Experienced Team

Cooley’s lawyers and technologists have 60+ years of collective experience managing discovery in large complex cases. We are frequent speakers and published experts in the area of eDiscovery, and we participate in the Sedona Conference Working Group and various bar associations and eDiscovery organizations.

Areas of Practice

We provide the following discovery services and consulting:

Litigation readiness

• >Document retention and management 
• Defensible preservation plans and response protocols 
• Standardized processes, procedures and policies aimed at regulatory compliance, meeting discovery obligations under various state and federal rules while increasing efficiency and minimizing risk

Early case assessment and discovery planning

• Identify, collect and preserve evidence 
• Partner with client IT professionals to increase efficiency and minimize risk of collecting electronic evidence 
• Leverage technology for early case assessment and reduce the size of data review populations 
• Develop defensible discovery protocols to prepare for meet and confer and case management conferences

Effective and efficient review processes

• Create budget and manage services for cost predictability 
• Advise regarding service providers and manage for cost containment and quality 
• Defensible strategies and advanced technology to reduce the amount of data to be reviewed by lawyers 
• Native review tools and preferred pricing service agreements with leading vendors

Total litigation case support

• Early case assessment 
• Case management and analysis tools 
• Discovery process (integrated electronic and paper) 
• Deposition management software 
• Trial support services

Education and outreach

• Targeted CLEs on eDiscovery case law, issues, best practices and trends for clients 
• External conferences and working groups