For busy legal teams, developing a strong and timely narrative that incorporates the relevant facts can be a challenge, especially on complex and fast-moving matters.

FTI Technology’s Story Development services quickly and cost-effectively provide clients with a matter’s core facts, presented within a succinct storyline, to help counsel develop and assess its case strategy. This offering is a natural complement to our Find Facts Fast research solution.

Story development services include:

Fact Memos

Organization of key facts in narrative form to facilitate counsel’s understanding of the matter and their assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of their arguments.

Witness Summaries

Detailed analysis of an individual’s relevant knowledge, actions, communications, and responsibilities to assist counsel with client interviews, and defending from and collecting critical information through offensive questioning.

Chronologies

Beat-by-beat breakdown of timing for all events relevant within a matter, spanning multiple issues and key players.

The FTI Technology story development service is unique in that it provides:

Highly Skilled Researchers

Dedicated team leveraging proven workflows honed over hundreds of matters.

Mastery of Documents

Unique insights into substantive issues and key witnesses by following the trail of clues to build the story.

Analytics Expertise

Best-of-breed platforms to surface key facts and documents through data-mining, charting trends over time, mapping communication networks, and other tools.

Real Litigation Experience

Former corporate litigators understand and deliver high-quality materials to enable legal teams to develop a successful legal strategy.

Case Study

A Proactive Fraud Investigation for a Global Fortune 500 Company

A global Fortune 500 company wanted to proactively investigate several of its global units to root out possible fraud after it was investigated in one jurisdiction. They turned to the FTI Technology team to provide Story Development services leveraging advanced analytics and experienced researchers for fact memo preparation. This team analyzed documents for numerous global markets, with hundreds of thousands of documents in many of these markets, and typically presented initial findings within 5-10 business days. For several jurisdictions, FTI prepared lengthy outlines detailing evidence of the suspicious activities including identifying the key players and related communications and other supporting documentation. In some instances, the researchers uncovered new issues of which counsel was unaware, resulting in additional fruitful investigation into other types of misconduct. As a result of FTI’s efforts, the company had a better understanding of its risk and was able to curtail further wrongdoing, including conducting informed employee interviews and, in some cases, terminating responsible employees.