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E-discovery Consulting & Services
There usually isn’t a “one-size-fits-all” solution for e-discovery – each organization has its own unique requirements and needs. This can include vertical industry specifics, litigation profile, company culture, geographic footprint, technology infrastructure, and more.
At FTI Technology, we understand how to work with this wide range of parameters to deliver solution-oriented products and services that best meet your unique needs. From end-to-end applications to point solutions like legal hold, ECA, and legal review, FTI Technology helps organizations find, implement, and optimize the right tools and technology for the job.
Our approach focuses on: Data Reduction, where we remove old, redundant data and only collect what’s necessary, greatly reducing costs; Process Workflow, proactively managing every aspect of data from inception through production; and Best-of-Breed Technology, ensuring the most advanced and appropriate tools are brought to bear for your solution, while still levering your existing IT investments where possible.
FTI’s full suite of E-discovery services also includes foreign language support and in-court data presentation.
Identification and Preservation
Our team has deep expertise in conducting witness interviews, defining potentially relevant data sources and working with IT to defensibly preserve those sources. In addition we can analyze automatic deletions within the system, help advise on preservation policies and also implement and train teams on preservation tools, such as those within Microsoft 365.
E-Discovery Sofware Consulting
From point solutions (i.e. legal hold, ECA, legal review), to end-to-end applications, we help organizations find and implement the best technology for their needs. This can include a wide variety of services, including hosting, on-demand services and training.
Legal Holds
We can help your team evaluate, implement and migrate to new legal hold offerings, as well as help update legal hold and data retention policies.
Data Management
Ensure that sensitive data is properly managed and remains secure, from cataloging backup tapes to collecting and remediating produced data afer a matter ends.
Managed Review, Including Foreign Language
FTI Technology drives quality and efficiency at every step of the legal review process, providing a unique combination of advanced software, expert attorney review teams and innovative workflows executed in collaboration with outside counsel.
Data Collection & Forensic Investigations
With speed and discretion, our team provides a strategic, systematic, and economic approach to investigating and collecting a myriad of data sources including network, mobile device and cloud-based social media data.
E-Discovery Managed Services
From sofware hosting to workflow design, project management and staffing, FTI Technology can manage the whole e-discovery process with a flat and transparent monthly pricing model.
Find Facts Fast
Our team of dedicated researchers, combined with advanced analytics technology, can quickly unearth key facts and data sets to enable timely and strategic decisions in investigations or litigation.
Data Presentation
FTI Technology professionals apply their courtroom hot seat experience to understand and present your data in a manner that is actionable, whether for arbitration hearings, board presentations or other related needs.
Cross-Border / Data Privacy
Safely and defensibly, FTI Technology professionals can quickly deploy anywhere in the world to conduct a complete investigation, from collection through analysis and production, on-site at a company location. Clients benefit from FTI’s extensive experience managing global matters, including in-country cultural awareness, discrete processes that do not interrupt the regular course of business and multi-lingual capabilities.
Emerging Digital Sources Discovery
FTI Technology provides services and proprietary technology that can extract data from a wide variety of emerging digital sources including chat and instant messaging applications, collaboration tools such as Slack, social media and cloudbased platforms and visually organize it in a way that is easy to understand and review; then integrate it into the organization’s choice of platform as part of a regular e-discovery process, investigation or regulatory response.
Case Study
FTI Technology Conducts Targeted Find Facts Fast Review for Time-Sensitive Internal Discovery Matter
A U.K.-based client was notified of a suspected legal issue that had the potential to scale to a multi-jurisdiction investigation. The organisation’s legal team sought to quickly review a population of documents to ascertain the validity of the matter in advance of a board meeting at which key decisions would be made about how to move forward. FTI Technology’s Acuity® Managed Review team and e-discovery experts were engaged to conduct a Find Facts Fast review.
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Case Study
When a client in the food services industry suspected that a newly acquired subsidiary was engaging in misleading and dishonest business practices, it sought to conduct an extensive internal investigation and lookback into the subsidiary’s activities. Using its Find Facts Fast analytic research methodology, FTI Technology was able to validate the client’s suspicions and provide the insight needed to take remedial action.
Case Study
A transportation company was conducting an internal investigation regarding allegations of improper conduct by specific employees. The allegations included reports that misconduct had occurred in a foreign country and involved corruption and illegal payments through an intermediary for that country’s government. The client engaged FTI Technology to answer key questions quickly.
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Case Study
A technology company that develops artificial intelligence and autonomous transportation solutions engaged FTI Technology to lead e-discovery and document review in a dispute relating to departing employee theft of intellectual property. In addition to their e-discovery needs, legal counsel and stakeholders from the organization’s compliance team needed experts who could investigate and uncover specific data that contained IP across multiple data sources within the client’s environment and the opposing party’s environment. FTI Technology’s team of emerging data sources experts applied the firm’s proprietary Connect platform to drive quick access and insights into technical files and other sources of IP stored in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.