Being prepared is the best defense.
With years of litigation response experience Celerity understands the litigation process and the duty to preserve information. In addition our IT consultants work with technology daily and understand the language, process, and concerns of IT professionals. What sets us apart from our competition is our unique ability to serve as the communication channel between IT and legal.
Celerity has a three phase program to help businesses achieve litigation preparedness by developing improved information management practices; including the implementation of an enterprise-wide Records Management System.
Phase I: Initial Assessments and Analyses
Celerity will assess the existing information management policy, company practices, and IT systems. Phase I will yield a GAP Analysis report, a draft Roadmap of future stages and estimated (order-of-magnitude) costs, and a Next Steps summary.
- Request and review policies involving information management, including formal or informal documentation.
- Compile and distribute targeted questionnaires.
- Identify and interview select staff.
- Deployment of MARCOSMto generate network topology
- Compare MARCOSM topology to any data maps that may already exist, and analyze with IT department.
- Prepare a data map to be updated periodically.
- Prepare Report summarizing process and findings and contrasting status quo to industry best-practices.
- Prepare Roadmap and cost-estimates.
- Summarize appropriate Next Steps.
Phase II: Litigation Response Plan
A proper litigation response plan is designed to maintain, manage, and precisely find, preserve, and collect data that is potentially relevant to litigation. Celerity works with IT, compliance, and corporate law departments to design a legally defensible response plan. Phase II yields a Readiness Report and a Litigation Response Toolkit, designed to organize in one resource the necessary tools and guidelines for consistent and confident discovery compliance and strategic planning.
- Review policies or documentation on litigation management practices.
- Identify and interview select attorneys and staff involved in responding to litigation or discovery requests.
- Prepare Report summarizing process and findings and contrasting current litigation response plans to defensible and efficient best-practices.
- Prepare Litigation Response Toolkit, compiling material and best-practices documents into a unified resource.
Phase III: Records Management and Email System Review, Vetting and Recommendation
Celerity assists in evaluating solutions and technologies to address the company's email storage, archiving, and retrieval needs. As well as, expansive revision and reform projects designed to rationalize records management practices through the implementation of consistent, enterprise-wide systems.
- Gather requirements for an enterprise-wide Record Management System.
- Review present email system and gather requirement for implementation of a standardized storage, archiving, and retrieval system.
- Design and blueprint the RMS and implementation strategy.
- Prepare Request For Information, Request For Proposal.
- Recommend vendors/solutions.
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