Litigation Readiness

Smarter Processes for Reducing Downstream Review Costs

Benefits

  • Significantly lower downstream review costs through a reduction in the volume of non-responsive documents erroneously filtered into the litigation hold set
  • Reduced risk of unnecessarily preserving non-responsive (but potentially harmful) information and of destroying information that should be preserved
  • Defensible segregation or disposal of non-relevant records, often 80 to 90 percent of e-mail and other electronically stored documents
  • Enterprise-wide systematic and consistent implementation of preservation policies
  • Removal of a major burden from employees who may be called upon to make preservation judgments
  • Better-informed decisions based on statistically valid performance metrics
  • Results proven to be more accurate than those of any other method

Litigation is highly disruptive. It diverts resources from normal business operations, imposes unplanned expenses, and can erode profits and damage the brand. The proactive assessment and management of documents subject to legal hold requirements can minimize these disruptions and save corporations millions of dollars in downstream review costs.

Companies and their legal counsel look to H5 to reduce review costs arising out of litigation, while mitigating the potential risks of over- or under-preserving documents.

Solutions

Upfront, we collaborate with clients, their legal advisors, IT staff, and records managers to identify and quantify opportunities for cost and risk reduction associated with their existing processes and systems. Based on an understanding of client goals and gaps between current and desired states, we provide a roadmap for improvements that we will implement, if requested, to more accurately and cost-effectively capture and manage potentially relevant information. [Learn more about the H5 Assessment.]

Elements of a customized solution, based on the core H5 Hi-Q Platform™, may include:

H5 EDGE™ Classifier: H5 EDGE Classifier is a document classification application that integrates seamlessly with and runs on top of organization’s existing litigation repositories or archives to more accurately identify, filter, and classify e-mail and other electronic documents that are potentially responsive to legal hold policies. [Learn more.]

Services: We support client needs with a range of expert services.

  • Data topology assessments
  • Strategies to capture and manage potentially relevant documents on backup tapes and other legacy information sources
  • Collection, data extraction and processing, document hosting, and workflow integration with archives or litigation repositories
  • Defensibility assessments